Online learning can’t replace student mobility, EUA told Student mobility should be fully restored as soon as possible as the advantages of experiencing another country’s higher education environment cannot be replaced by remote learning, delegates to this year’s online European University Association (EUA) annual conference heard. Professor Dame Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool and a leading figure promoting global links in United Kingdom higher education, told the conference that going abroad to study was a life-changing experience for students, contributing to their maturity and personal and intellectual capacity. “Students will feel an affinity with the country they have studied in and the need for cross understanding and sensitivities to other people’s cultures, making for greater cultural understanding both at home and overseas and building up social and economic ties between nations,” she said.