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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10164
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/edcuation

Almost 200,000 students took part in Erasmus scheme in academic year 2008-2009

Brussels, 21/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - Almost 200,000 higher education students received grants to study or train abroad in 2008-2009, an overall increase of 8.7% on the previous academic year. According to the European Commission, which published the figures on Monday 21 June, this is a record number which will be difficult to beat in the near future given Europe's current budgetary problems. More than two million young Europeans have benefited from Erasmus funding since the programme's...

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