HC Deb 16 February 1960 vol 617 c1101
2. Mr. Millan

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what assistance is given by his Department to encourage students and teachers, respectively, to participate in exchange or other schemes in Colonial Territories; and what is the number of each, respectively, who have taken part in such schemes in the year 1958–59.

Mr. Iain Macleod

There are no exchange schemes. But about 17,000 students from Colonial Territories were studying in the United Kingdom during 1958–59 and in 1959 the Colonial Office alone recruited 257 teachers for service in Colonial Territories.

Mr. Millan

While thanking the Minister for that Answer, may I ask him whether, now that a number of universities are developing in Colonial Territories, he does not think it very important that the exchange of students should take place in other directions as well? Will the right hon. Gentleman do something positive about that, because my impression at the moment is that very few British students do, in fact, go to universities in the Colonies?

Mr. Macleod

I agree that in the future this is a development that we would like to see; we would like to see a two-way traffic develop. We help in one small way through Colonial Development and Welfare grant to one organisation, and if there are other ways of helping I shall be very glad to study them.

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