Levelling up: Johnson insists new Turing exchange scheme will be global and help students from disadvantaged areas SCHOOLS, colleges and universities across the UK can from today apply for funding to allow students to study and work abroad as part of the post-Brexit replacement for the Erasmus exchange programme. The £110 million Turing scheme, named after the WW2 codebreaker, will from September fund global exchanges for some 35,000 UK students and, insists the UK Government, target disadvantaged students and those from under-represented areas. It also points out that, under the new scheme, students will be able to receive a maximum of £491 per month towards living costs, alongside money towards travel costs; around £30 more than existed under Erasmus.