HC Deb 03 July 1967 vol 749 cc195-6W
Sir M. Galpern

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, in view of Oxford University's recent refusal to increase fees to overseas undergraduates and the growing opposition by university staffs and students to his demand for such increases, he will now reconsider the whole position.

Mr. Crosland

Discussions on fees in higher education institutions have been initiated between my Department, the universities, the Universities Grants Committee and the Local Authority Associations. These discussions will include the question of the fees payable by students from overseas in the context of fees as a whole, and will necessarily take some time. I cannot therefore add to the very full explanations of my present policy which I have already made.