THE GOVERNMENT must take 'urgent action' to support EU-funded training schemes that are at risk of 'stalling or stopping' post-Brexit thanks to the slow introduction of the UK's replacement investment fund, Universities UK has claimed.
, however, 164 of these schemes face suspension or termination when this funding comes to an end later next year. The Government’s replacement investment programme, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund , is not due to fully kick in until 2024/25 — creating a funding gap that could leave both jobs and key community projects at risk.The ESIF comprises five linked funding programmes that support economic development across the EU.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Brexit is Boris’s magic wand, but we’re now in a totally different worldIn politics, victories bring problems just as often as defeats. Boris Johnson’s main claim on the affection of his electorate is that he got Brexit done. His biggest weakness is that, having got Brexit done, he has lost the issue which gives him the most energy. At the Conservative party spring conference in Blackpool this weekend the Prime Minister sounded like a man out of ideas.
Read more »
P&O Ferries protesters take to ports across UK to rally against 'jobs massacre'Protests are taking place at UK ports over the sacking of hundreds of seafarers, as calls grow for the boss of P&O Ferries to quit.
Read more »
Tech crisis to hit UK amid China lockdown - ‘Won't be enough to satisfy demand’AS MAJOR cities in China go under lockdown to fight the latest Covid outbreak, an expert has told Express.co.uk that Brits are likely to face a shortage of technology as a result.
Read more »
Protests at UK ports as calls grow for P&O Ferries boss to quitDemonstrations come after the firm sack 800 staff and the European Causeway ship is detained for being ‘unfit to sail’
Read more »
Russian oligarch’s private jets detained by UK GovernmentTwo jets belonging to Russian oligarch Eugene Shvidler have been under investigation at Farnborough and Biggin Hill airports since last month
Read more »