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Old 24-12-2020, 18:13   #5330
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Re: Brexit-Transitional Period Ends 31/12/20

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
Boris said so in the press conference. "but our arrangement basically means that financially the British Exchequer loses out on the deal". "Erasmus was all so extremely expensive".
And he has never told porkies before?

We send almost five times the number of students to the EU than the EU send to the U.K. - I’d love to see the figures that show we contribute five times that of the rest of the EU..

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Originally Posted by jonbxx View Post
Not sure I follow. We send proportionally more students to the EU than we receive and the funding for those students comes from a central pot.

However, it's not the funding that is a shame, it is the loss of opportunity to participate in an excellent experience studying abroad. Let's hope that this Turing Scheme is as good or better
Sorry, I forgot the <sarcasm> markers...
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