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HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeWe are already resetting our relationship with our European friends, to strengthen ties, to secure a broad-based security pact and to tackle barriers to trade. The President of…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeThe Turing scheme focuses on ensuring that UK students in higher education, learners in further education and school pupils are able to take advantage of studying or working…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeI am not sure that, if you are engaged in a quite important reset as the UK Government are, it makes enormous sense to pick and choose the different issues on which you might…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeI talked about the considerable benefits that come to our country and our higher education system from the ability of international students to come to study in the UK. We are…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeI am pleased that we are able to continue the Turing scheme for the coming year, with £105 million allocated this year. I will come back to the noble Baroness on the allocation…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeI understand that, and I understand the benefits that come, for example, to our higher education sector from international students coming to the UK. That is why the Government…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeIt is important that we provide opportunities for our young people to study and work abroad. That is what the Turing scheme is currently doing, to an extent. I am pleased that in…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeAs I have just said, there were considerable benefits to being part of the Erasmus scheme, but of course the UK ceased to participate in Erasmus as a programme country after…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeMy Lords, following the UK’s departure from the EU, the Government introduced the Turing scheme in 2021, which provides grants for students to study and work anywhere in the world…20 Jan 2025HANSARDErasmus ProgrammeWe are, of course, already engaged in defining the important reset of our relationship with the EU. That is why the Prime Minister and the European Commission President met in the…20 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationThe noble Lord is absolutely right. It is important for those of us in the Department for Education to work across government with DCMS colleagues in this area, and I assure him…15 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationHe flits. I have no doubt that my noble friend has also heard what the noble Lord has to say. He is a strong advocate to me and other Ministers of the need to ensure that, in…15 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationMy noble friend rightly identifies that there has been a decline in student entries into, for example, the arts and creative GCSEs, a reduction in the number of staff available to…15 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationThe noble Baroness is absolutely right to identify that, if we believe that these opportunities are important for children, they must be perhaps even doubly important for children…15 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationMy Lords, a creative education and enriching experience must be for all, not just the preserve of the privileged few. Drama and theatre studies students at GCSE and A-level are…15 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationThe noble Lord makes an important point about the benefits to children’s learning of being able to see the development and design of ideas; I wholeheartedly agree with him. That…15 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationI have no doubt that a broad education, which also enables children and young people to engage in creative activities, is one of the things that protects against some of the…15 Jan 2025HANSARDState Schools: Creative EducationThe right reverend Prelate is absolutely right that, in order to offer opportunities to children, we need to have the qualified teachers in place to deliver them. That is why this…15 Jan 2025HANSARDQualifications Reform ReviewI thank my noble friend for those comments. I suspect that she—like me—has taught these qualifications. I introduced a general vocational qualification into a high school where I…18 Dec 2024HANSARDQualifications Reform ReviewI thank my noble friend. He is right that there is something very arresting for a new Member of the House of Lords and a returned Education Minister to attend a meeting with my…18 Dec 2024