Erasmus U-turn Criticised as “Beneficial” for Education
THE RECENT announcement of the return of UK education to the EU-wide Erasmus Programme has been met with much appreciation from the academic world, yet dissatisfaction remains.
A U-turn on Brexit principles? Many say yes. That includes RecoupUK leader Ben Low, who has opined that such a move is unfortunately “beneficial” for the “leviathan” that is the Education Industry.
In an interview with AlbionNews, Low said that Erasmus would bring Britain into a more “open-minded, pluralistic and woke world” with its coupling with Europe. He said that such a coupling would “inevitably lead to £570 million being thrown at foreign, European students” and that Keir Starmer is undoing the “independence” of the United Kingdom.
The Erasmus Programme sees students in the EU engage in an exchange programme with another EU-member state, typically between universities. Following Brexit, the UK Conservative government inaugurated the “Turing scheme”, one which brings UK students to “many” countries across the world.
The return of Erasmus of Rotterdam – a Dutch Renaissance scholar – will potentially tragically triumph the unseen greatness of Britain’s (Sir?) Alan Turing. Shame.
Overall, who knows! This “U-turn” on education will undoubtedly prove an interesting scenario: is it societally *good* for this to be beneficial for education? I honestly don’t know about that!
