Plurilingual and Intercultural Education Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Plurilingual and Intercultural Education

Earl of Clancarty Excerpts
Tuesday 18th October 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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Obviously, the Government support continuing professional development for people in work—this includes our commitment to a lifelong loan entitlement—so that we as an economy and as workers within that economy can stay agile to the requirements, whether languages or more broadly.

Earl of Clancarty Portrait The Earl of Clancarty (CB)
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My Lords, focusing on the “intercultural education” aspect of this Question, can the Minister say what assessment has been made so far of the loss of value represented by the lack of reciprocity in the Turing scheme?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I do not have a formal assessment of the impact of the lack of reciprocity, but I am very pleased to share with the House that around 38,000 young people will be funded to take part in the Turing scheme this year, going to 150 locations, and that 52% of those young people come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The noble Earl understands better than I do that you cannot make a direct comparison with the Erasmus scheme, but I remind the House that in its last year 17,000 young people took part.