§ Mr. Christopher Price asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what estimates he has made about 446W the effect on the viability of the School of Tropical Medicines and Hygiene and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the Government's move to full cost overseas student fees.
§ Mr. Waldegrave: The Government earmarked a sum of £3 million in the universities' recurrent grant for 1981–82 to help ensure that uncertainty about prospective income from overseas students does not adversely affect selected postgraduate work of particular importance to the country. The University Grants Committee will decide how this money should be distributed to individual universities. The internal allocation of these resources is decided by the universities concerned. It is therefore too early to say what the overall effect on individual institutions of the full—cost student fee policy will be.