Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give favourable consideration to the suggestions by a number of Scottish university principals that universities in Scotland should no longer be financed via the University Grants Committee but, instead, via a system of full cost fees payable to the university for every student they admit.
Mr. BrookeMy right hon. Friend is willing to consider the feasibility of any constructive scheme for innovation in the way universities are funded. He has not, however, received a proposal that full-cost fees should be instituted at Scottish universities.