UK should seek return to Erasmus, says education expert

Trade breakthrough could pave way for exchange scheme re-entry, suggests Simon Marginson

The UK should seek a “magic key” to allow it to once again take part in the EU’s Erasmus+ academic exchange programme, an international education expert has said.

Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at the University of Oxford, told a Universities UK forum on 28 February that the UK’s post-Brexit withdrawal from Erasmus+—coupled with a severe drop off in the number of undergraduate international students from the EU coming to the UK—had been damaging for UK universities.