ERASMUS STUDENT EXCHANGE STATISTICS – BRITAIN PARTICIPATION FALL
March 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
Once again British students have shown a curious and perhaps worrying reluctance to attend universities in other European countries under the EU Commission's Erasmus programme for student and teacher exchange. Newly-released figures show that for all 25 EU countries there was a rise of 6.3% to 144,037 in students participating in university exchanges in 2004/5 but the number of UK students going abroad for study actually fell from 7,539 to 7,214. In France, by contrast, there was a rise from 20,981 to 21,561 and in Germany from 20.688 to 22,427. ...
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