HC Deb 06 November 2000 vol 356 c43W
Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what response he has sent to the Joint Council for Education in the Commonwealth/UK COSA report on international student mobility. [135937]

Mr. Wicks

[holding answer 1 November 2000]: We are closely considering the report's recommendations. I am pleased to see that a good deal of what the report suggests is being already implemented in the UK. For example, we place great importance on attracting more international students to the UK. We are actively pursuing this through the Prime Minister's initiative to recruit an additional 75,000 students into further and higher education by 2005.