Recommendation 99

Looking ahead to future years of the Turing Scheme, and collaboration with the devolved administrations, Rebecca Hackett, Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland, told us that: 223 “New International Learning Exchange programme to make good the loss of Erasmus+”, Welsh Government, 21 March 2021 224 Q240 225 Q284 226 Q285 227 Q291 228 Q241 229 Q241 230 Q285 40 Universities and Scotland [ … ] the Turing programme [ … ] is a flexible and iterative programme. It has received a year of funding already, but the Department for Education is already working very intensively with the devolved administrations to ensure that the scheme does deliver on what it is seeking to deliver and can evolve to address any issues. Clearly, it is going to be a different stage in year one with all of the impacts of covid and so on, but we are aiming for it to receive the same brand recognition as Erasmus+ in the longer term and we will be working hard with the devolved administrations to ensure that.231