European Affairs Committee
7 July 2026
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European Affairs Committee Actual start House of Lords
18:01 - 19:17
Speaker 1
Well, good morning and welcome to this session of the House of Lords Select Committee on European Affairs, in which we're looking into the issue of Erasmus+, the prospects for the future and how that relates to the Turing scheme, which has been running up to now. And we're delighted to have as our witnesses this morning Ms. Vivienne Stern, who is the CEO of Universities UK, and also Emma Meredith, who's Director of Skills Policy and Global Engagement at the Association of Colleges.
We're very grateful to you for sparing us the time this morning, we much look forward to what you have to say. This is a public session which is being broadcast, a transcript will be taken and you'll be provided with a draft to check for any errors and omissions that you might find. And we're aiming to get it done within 60 minutes if we can, not least because you'll probably have had enough of the temperature in here by then. So if you are content, we'll get underway with the first question, which is a sort of a rather general one just to set the scene, which is about Erasmus+. I mean, how has it changed since the UK last participated in the program, and crucially, how does it compare with the Turing scheme?
Who would like to start?
19:17 - 19:43
Speaker 2
Yes, go ahead. Well, thank you very much for the invitation to the Association of Colleges to participate this morning. We're the national membership body for colleges of further and higher education in England. There are 213 colleges delivering education and training to 1.6 million learners in England. And we were really pleased that the UK decided to reassociate to Erasmus+.
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