Erasmus+ returns for UK students in 2027
UK and EU negotiators have agreed that the UK will rejoin Erasmus+, the European student exchange programme, from 2027. It replaces the narrower Turing scheme for European destinations, and it matters most to anyone choosing a course now: a degree with a year abroad starting in 2027 or later could once again place you at a European university with fees covered and a grant attached. The year abroad covers how these placements work.
Are we fixing universities or quietly unmaking them?
A weekend essay arguing that the reforms aimed at making universities more efficient — merged departments, larger cohorts, casualised teaching, metrics for everything — are dismantling the things that made a degree worth having. It is an argument rather than a finding, but it names what students have been describing piecemeal for two years.