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DSR 11 (Revised)
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Mr Alistair Goodlad MP
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SUBJECT:
Thank you for your letter to Timothy Raison enclosing
one from the Reverend Oliver Simon about overseas student
fees and Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees.
The Government fully recognise the value of overseas
students and welcomes them. It is in our interest to
attract high calibre students here for political, economic
and commercial as well as academic reasons. We do this
by carefully targeted award schemes rather than, as in
the past, indiscriminate subsidy of all students from
overseas.
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To give full effect to this policy of targeted support
the Government made available in February 1983, over a
three-year period between 1983/84 and 1985/86, an
additional £46 million for overseas students coming to
Britain. This money has been used to expand the ODA's
Technical Cooperation and Training Programme and the
Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. It has
also been used to assist the British Council's work in
promoting overseas the value and benefits of British
higher education, This is particularly evident in the
Council's Education Counselling Service which, with
financial and other support from academic institutions,
has successfully established operations in Malaysia,
Singapore and Hong Kong,
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