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Cameron: No-one knows about our post-Brexit study-abroad scheme

Source: PA Wire

Nobody knows about the UK’s post-Brexit study-abroad scheme because the Government does not promote it well enough, the Foreign Secretary has suggested.

Britain turned down an offer to continue participating in the European Union’s Erasmus student exchange scheme after Brexit and has instead replaced it with the Turing scheme.

Lord David Cameron insisted the Turing programme is “more generous” than Erasmus in many ways but that fewer people are aware of it.

He revealed that one of his own children, who is currently deciding where to

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