§ Dame Joan Vickersasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will seek powers to require all independent further education establishments providing English language instruction to foreign pupils aged 18 years and under to register with her Department.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeI share the concern that many people have expressed about the standards of some independent establishments providing English language courses for foreign students, but there are difficulties about the sort of legislation my hon. Friend has in mind. Many of the independent schools of English are recognised by my right hon. Friend as efficient under the Departmentment's Rule 16, and I am anxious that as many as possible of the unrecognised establishments should seek and secure such recognition.