The UK has left the European Union and has departed from a number of other European initiatives, including in the area of higher education, such as the Erasmus+ Programme – some of the instruments of which are focused specifically on HE – which is currently being replaced by the Turing Scheme.
Nevertheless, the UK remains loyal to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) even post-Brexit, having co-founded the EHEA along with three other countries back in 1998: Germany, France and Italy.
This loyalty has very specific reasons for the UK in the context of its two separate memberships in the EHEA. One membership is held jointly by England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EWNI), while the other one belongs only to Scotland.
