Voices: ‘We are slowly coming to our senses’: Readers on EU student exchange scheme’s post-Brexit return

More than 10,000 UK university students participated in the Erasmus+ scheme in 2018 - (PA)

Independent readers broadly welcomed Britain’s decision to rejoin the Erasmus student exchange scheme, with many describing it as a long-overdue correction to a damaging Brexit-era choice.

Several commenters argued the UK should never have left Erasmus, portraying the original withdrawal as ideological rather than practical, and harmful to students who had no say in the referendum.