Universities: Non-EU Students Debate

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Department: Home Office

Universities: Non-EU Students

Baroness Coussins Excerpts
Monday 6th February 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Coussins Portrait Baroness Coussins
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My Lords, will the Government support student mobility in the opposite direction and extend the fee waiver to students who want to spend a year studying or working abroad in a non-EU country in the way that is available now under the Erasmus scheme only to students spending their year abroad within the EU?

Lord Henley Portrait Lord Henley
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My Lords, the noble Baroness will appreciate that that is a completely different question from the Question on the Order Paper. We are discussing the actions of the Home Office and the UK Border Agency and the effect they are having on students coming in. If the noble Baroness wishes to put down a Question on that subject, I am sure that one of my noble friends will be more than happy to answer it.