After leaving Erasmus+, the programme that has provided educational and vocational opportunities to more than 200,000 UK students for 33 years, the government has offered a vision of its replacement in the Turing scheme.
At this juncture, however, a vision is all that it appears to be. The government has yet to clarify how the Turing programme will realise its objective of becoming, as Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, suggested, a “truly international scheme”. It seems the little we do know about the programme undercuts this ambition.
The government has only committed to fund UK students abroad, not overseas students visiting the UK, and the Department for Education has not announced provisions for easing a newly onerous visa process that incoming students must navigate.
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