After Brexit, many EU students find it too expensive to study in the UK. The Scottish government wants to attract more young people from the EU with a new program.
Scotland has created a new scholarship program to welcome more EU students to its universities.
“Over the past year we have unfortunately seen a dramatic drop in applications from EU students who want to study here,” said Scottish Secretary of State for Higher Education, Jamie Hepburn, according to a statement on Thursday. “We want to do everything we can to undo the damage that Brexit has done and to promote Scotland’s educational opportunities worldwide.”
The program, which is funded with 2.25 million pounds (around 2.62 million euros), is intended to financially support hundreds of students from the European Union starting this autumn to study at Scottish universities. This year, 41 percent fewer EU candidates applied to Scottish universities than in the previous year. In the UK as a whole, the decline was even greater, according to the figures from the central registry UCAS (Universities & Colleges Admissions Service).
With Brexit, Great Britain also withdrew from the EU exchange program Erasmus, with which uncomplicated semesters abroad were possible. The government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to enable British students to stay abroad far beyond Europe with the so-called Turing Program. However, foreign students at British universities are no longer funded.
The Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold another independence referendum and, in the event of a victory, lead her country back into the EU as an independent state from London. The Scots voted against Brexit in 2016 with a clear majority.
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