BRITISH students could face the “tragedy” of being excluded from a foreign exchange university programme as the EU hits back after Brexit.
Students can currently choose to study in a European university under the popular Erasmus scheme, which sees more than 15,000 applications every year.
But now the programme’s UK director has warned that the Brussels bloc could kick out British university-goers in the next few years in response to the Brexit vote.
Ruth Sinclair-Jones said: “We face a sad moment of uncertainty, after 30 years of this enrichment of so many lives.”
Worryingly, the end to British participation in the scheme could hit the wallets of UK universities.
Up to 120,000 EU students currently attend British universities, with the EU paying for the fees of 27,401 of them.
Mrs Sinclair-Jones said next year’s applicants should be unaffected but added: “In the long term, it’s an unknown situation.
“We will continue with our plans until 2017 but after that we have to wait.”
The programme was founded by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones in the 1970s.
But now the programme’s UK director has warned that the Brussels bloc could kick out British university-goers in the next few years in response to the Brexit vote.
Ruth Sinclair-Jones said: “We face a sad moment of uncertainty, after 30 years of this enrichment of so many lives.”
Worryingly, the end to British participation in the scheme could hit the wallets of UK universities.
Up to 120,000 EU students currently attend British universities, with the EU paying for the fees of 27,401 of them.
Mrs Sinclair-Jones said next year’s applicants should be unaffected but added: “In the long term, it’s an unknown situation.
“We will continue with our plans until 2017 but after that we have to wait.”
The programme was founded by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones in the 1970s.
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