British students will no longer be able to participate in the Erasmus exchange programme after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected the chance to continue participating in the scheme.
After six months living in Barcelona as an Erasmus student, Leslie Fried was desperate to see as much of Spain as she could. With only one week holiday and a limited budget, she hired a car with six friends and they hit the road.
Tens of thousands of students head to Madrid each summer to take up internship posts in the hope of improving their language skills and exploring Spanish culture. This is everything you need to know to make the most of it.
He is 80 years old, has suffered a heart attack and quadruple bypass, but on Monday this Spanish grandfather will head off to start a new semester as an Erasmus student in Italy.
Spanish politician Manuel Marín, a longtime member of the European Commission seen as the 'father' of the EU's popular Erasmus student exchange scheme, has died at the age of 68.
It's a new school year and that means a whole new intake of Erasmus students will flood into Spain. Here's what makes Spain the most popular destination for students on the European exchange programme.
Three of the top ten places to spend Erasmus are in Spain, according to a new ranking, with Madrid at number one. What makes Spain such an awesome place to study? The Local explains.
As a long time Spanish resident in the UK, director of Modern Languages at Northumbria University Dr Carlos Solares reveals some of the Spain-UK links you never knew existed.
Could it be the famed fish and chips, the daily drizzle or the Mr Darcy effect? Great Britain is the destination of choice for Spanish students, a new study has revealed.
Updated: a Polish student on the Erasmus exchange program has died after falling seven metres while attempting to take a selfie photograph of herself in front of Seville's iconic Triana bridge.
Spain's Education Minister José Ignacio Wert is to demand higher academic performance and English-language proficiency equivalent to European level B2 from the 10,000 applicants who wish to benefit from government funding for the Erasmus Plus programme.
Erasmus, the world's biggest student exchange, is to expand after 25 years of funding European students to go abroad. But with the EU budget being slashed, does the grant scheme deserve a 50 percent boost to its budget?
The European Commission has dismissed claims by Spain’s highly unpopular Education Minister that grants for Spanish students on Erasmus, the European university exchange programme, will be halved next year.
Spain's Ministry of Education on Tuesday reversed its decision to restrict the number of education grants given to the 40,000 Spanish university students who are currently studying abroad with the Erasmus student exchange scheme.
Spain has held onto its position as the leading destination for European university students in the Erasmus exchange scheme and is also the country that sends most students abroad, despite offering the lowest grants in the EU.
