§ Mr. Guy Barnettasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will mitigate the effects of increased fees to be charged to students from overseas studying in the United Kingdom during 1981–82.
§ Mr. HurdI have been asked to reply.
The Government have decided to allocate sufficient aid funds to training programmes in 1981–82 to restore the number of new awards for students and trainees from developing countries under Government to Government programmes and the Commonwealth scholarship and fellowship plan to approximately the levels of 1978 and 1979.
We have also extended for 1981–82 the fee support scheme and we plan to make up to 300 awards available under this scheme to selected privately financed post graduate students from developing countries who are suffering hardship as a result of fee increases.