The UK and EU reached an agreement for the UK to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ student‑mobility programme from 2027, with the government committing about £570 million to the scheme. The deal, framed as delivering on a recent manifesto pledge, will restore reciprocal university exchanges, vocational placements and sports and cultural mobility for UK learners and allow EU students to study in the UK on parity with domestic fees. Higher education leaders said the restoration will ease inward‑mobility pressures, renew research and teaching collaborations, and recapture international tuition revenues lost since Brexit; systems and mobility offices must now plan for operational integration and clarify how the Turing programme will be aligned or phased out.