§ Mr. CrouchI beg to ask leave to present a Petition from the students and staff of the University of Kent at Canterbury, containing 296 signatures, which shows that the proposed alterations in the existing scale of grants to universities will result in students from overseas being charged much higher fees than at present, that it is undesirable to discourage students from overseas from coming to British universities, and that this would be damaging both to the universities of this country and to the interests of the other countries concerned.
Wherefore, your Petitioners pray that the system of grants to universities be not altered in such a way as to discriminate against students from overseas.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.