HC Deb 25 June 1971 vol 819 cc359-60W
Mr. Merlyn Rees

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is her estimate of the number of foreign students in further and higher education in England and Wales, and her estimate of those receiving financial assistance from Government funds.

Mr. van Straubenzee

In autumn, 1970, about 31,000 students from outside the United Kingdom were enrolled in full-time courses of further and higher education in England and Wales. Complete information is not readily available on the number receiving financial assistance from the various central Government Departments involved; in 1970 about 100 students from overseas were in receipt of full-value awards from local education authorities.