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<p>The Turing Scheme has made funding available for more than 41,000 students from
schools, colleges and universities to go on study and work placements in over 150
destinations across the world this academic year. The government has also confirmed
funding for the continuation of the Turing Scheme for the next 3 years, including
£110 million for the 2022/23 academic year.</p><p>A competitive procurement exercise
was conducted to appoint a delivery partner for the Turing Scheme from 1 April 2022.
Two compliant bids were received for the contract to run the Turing Scheme. Following
a robust procurement process, Capita’s bid was considered to be the highest in quality.
The value of Capita’s bid was £6,271,155, which was the lowest bid in monetary value
in this procurement.</p><p>As with all contracts, we will actively manage it at an
operational and strategic level and should concerns arise, our contracts contain provisions
and remedies to deal with them swiftly and effectively.</p><p>UK education providers
who have successfully applied for funding may use the Turing Scheme funding to support
mobilities for any of their students, regardless of study subject.</p><p>Statistics
on actual participation in the scheme will be available after the end of the first
year of the programme. The COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant effect on mobilities
with some institutions choosing to delay their students’ placements. Statistics on
participation in ERASMUS+ are published by the European Union: <a href="https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/statistics-and-factsheets"
target="_blank">https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/statistics-and-factsheets</a>.</p>
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