UK's exit from EU and ERASMUS

The UK's final departure from the EU is unfolding and the details are beginning to emerge. One of the casualties of Brexit is the loss of access to ERASMUS agreements that support mobility of students enrolled in higher education institutions throughout EU countries. Boris Johnson's government is launching the "Turing Scheme" but educators are skeptical, noting that the mobility that would result from its implementation would largely be symbolic.

Modeling by government officials projected early in 2021 that U.K. universities could lose as much as 2/3rds of the students that used to come from EU countries. U.K. elite universities at Oxford and Cambridge will likely gain in enrollment and revenue.