The Erasmus Programme was initiated by the European Commission 25 years ago, in a time that the commission didn't even have a mandate on education. The community only had 11 members and the Iron ...

The EU’s top education official, Androulla Vassiliou, has called for a revamped Erasmus student exchange programme to place more emphasis on youth employability in the coming years, as the European ...

Dutch Renaissance philosopher Erasmus inspired the name of the European student exchange programme that's funded millions of students to spend a year or several months in a foreign country. The ...

Mobility programmes have become more popular so much so that in October the 30 countries participating in the Socrates Programme will be celebrating the millionth Erasmus participant. Erasmus is the ...

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Our continued participation in Erasmus isn’t top of the Brexit agenda. Yet we need more graduates with the skills that the study abroad scheme fosters As a hopeless optimist, I am finding it difficult ...

Holyrood ministers are exploring options to keep Scotland involved in the EU's Erasmus programme. The scheme, which offers opportunities to study abroad, is ending in the UK because of Brexit, with a ...

More than a quarter of those who take part in the Erasmus scheme meet their long-term partner while studying abroad, and more than one million babies may have been produced as a result (Getty) Where ...

Withdrawing access to the EU's Erasmus scheme as part of the Brexit deal has been described as a "huge blow" for students and universities in Scotland. Erasmus is an EU programme that helps students ...

Students at NI universities can continue to participate in the Erasmus scheme under an arrangement with the Irish government. Erasmus is an EU programme that helps students study in other countries.