Overseas students in Britain: How their presence was politicised in 1966-1967

Minerva

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-321

  Lee, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33646399062     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004455800689     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Committee on Public Expenditure, Public Record Office (hereafter PRO) CAB134/2395.
2. Minerva's Chronicle recorded the reactions: see V (Spring 1967), pp. 458-462, and V (Summer 1967), pp. 604-610, alongside accounts of the "troubles" in the London School of Economics.
3. Boyle, Edward and Crosland, Anthony, The Politics of Education (London: Penguin Books, 1971), p. 178.
4. Carswell, John, Government and the Universities in Britain: Programme and Performance 1960-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 110.
5. Copy of letter from Sir Herbert Andrew to the Treasury dated 24 August, 1966, on Lords debate on overseas student fees, PRO ED188/7. The Treasury file 2FD 829/811/01 has been destroyed.
6. Report of the Committee on Higher Education, Cmnd 2154 (London: HMSO, 1963), pp. 212-215.
7. Committee on Education Policy, PRO CAB134/1667-8; CAB130/192, GEN811.
8. 5th Report from the Estimates Committee, Grants to Universities and Colleges, HC 283 (1964-65), para. 105.
9. Working Party on Student Support, PRO ED54/345.
10. When responsibility for financial assistance to universities was transferred to the Treasury in 1919, the UGC was formed from university personnel as an advisory body, but it quickly acquired full responsibility for the allocation of funds between institutions.
11. House of Commons Debates 5th series Vol. 757, cols. 749-754.
12. CC(66) 58th conclusions min. 4, in PRO CAB128/41 part 3.
13. Overseas Student Fees, PRO ED188/4.
14. Copy of letter from Sir John Wolfenden to Sir Herbert Andrew dated 4 November, 1966, PRO ED188/7.
15. House of Commons Debates 5th series Vol. 738, cols. 376-378.
16. House of Commons Debates 5th series Ibid., Vol. 741, cols. 1981-2044.
17. Ashby, Eric and Anderson, Mary, The Rise of the Student Estate in Britain (London: Methuen, 1970), pp. 108-110.
18. Dahrendorf, Ralf, LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 443-454.
19. Personal information from Mr Martin Kenyon.
20. House of Lords Debates 5th series Vol. 280, cols. 204-286.
21. Copy of letter from Sir Eric Ashby to Anthony Crosland dated 1 March, 1967, PRO UGC7/942.
22. The Times, 23 February, 1967.
23. Letter from D.W. Logan to Sir John Wolfenden dated 23 December, 1966, PRO UGC7/942.
24. Pemberton, Joyce and Pemberton, John, The University College at Buckingham: A First Account of its Conception, Foundation, and Early Years (Buckingham: Buckingham Press, 1979), pp. 15-28.
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26. House of Commons Debates Vol. 741, cols. 1936-1938, 73-74. The Treasury tried to place the cost of the hardship fund on either the DES or the Ministry of Overseas Development, but after months of interdepartmental dispute Cabinet on 26 October, 1967, agreed that it should be additional public expenditure. See PRO PREM13/1451 and CC(67) 61st conclusions min. 8 in CAB128/42 part 3.
27. House of Commons Debates Vol. 471, cols. 1989-1991 in Crosland's speech.
28. Fraser, Stewart (ed.), Governmental Policy and International Education (New York: John Wiley, 1965), pp. 150, 221.
29. Malayan University, Kirkby, PRO (Cox papers), CO1045/487.
30. UK Student Welfare Policy, PRO BW3/28.
31. Conference of Voluntary Societies, PRO BW3/17.
32. The British Council was established in 1934 to promote a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language, and to encourage cultural, scientific, technological and educational cooperation with other countries. It was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1940. In the 1960s it was funded largely from grants-in-aid from the three overseas departments - the Colonial, Commonwealth Relations and Foreign Offices - in proportions according to the work undertaken in the colonies, the Commonwealth and elsewhere.
33. Committee on Overseas Students, PRO CAB134/1313, 2373-2376.
34. Bell, G.W. and Kirk-Greene, A.H.M., The Sudan Political Service 1902-1952 (Oxford: St Antony's College, 1989).
35. Accommodation for a Club, PRO T219/906; Proposed International Hall for Students, PRO UGC7/569.
36. Committee on the Teaching of English Overseas, PRO ED120/790.
37. Commonwealth Education Conference 1959, PRO T220/780.
38. English Speaking Union, PRO FO371/114366/AU1051/1-24.
39. Central Bureau Agenda and Meetings, PRO ED121/786-789.
40. Lee, J.M., "No Peace Corps for the Commonwealth?", The Round Table, 336 (October 1995), pp. 455-467.
41. Voluntary Service Overseas, PRO PREM11/5007.
42. Teachers for East Africa, PRO CO822/2520; CO859/1432; OD17/84.
43. Voluntary Societies Catering for Service Overseas, PRO OD10/80.
44. Grants from OSWEP funds, Public Record Office BW3/34; OSWEP Policy, PRO DO163/19-20.
45. Blin-Stoyle, Roger (ed.), The Sussex Opportunity: A New University and the Future (London: Harvester Press, 1986), pp. 94-107.
46. Ashby, Eric, Community of Universities (London: Association of Commonwealth Universities, 1963), p. 51.
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48. Robinson, Eric E., The New Polytechnics: The People's Universities Ibid., pp. 33-34.
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50. Boyle, E., The Politics of Education, op. cit., pp. 193-194.
51. Cabinet Minutes, PRO CC(65) 6th conclusions, item 7, PRO CAB128/39 part 1.
52. Williams, Peter (ed.), The Overseas Student Question: Studies for a Policy (London: Heinemann, 1981), appendix B, statistics.
53. Layard, Richard, King, John and Moser, Claus, The Impact of Robbins (London: Penguin Books, 1969), pp. 57-60;
54. Blaug, Mark, An Introduction to the Economics of Education (London: Penguin Books, 1970), pp. 291-292.
55. Bailey, Richard, "Brain Drain and Overseas Students", The Times, 6 October, 1966.
56. Nwauwa, Apollos O., Imperialism, Academe, and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans 1860-1960 (London: Frank Cass, 1996), pp. 215-216.
57. Ashby, Eric, with Anderson, Mary, Universities: British, Indian, African: A Study of the Ecology of Higher Education (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966), pp. 267-269.
58. On the IUC, see Kolinsky, Martin, "The Demise of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas: A Chapter in the History of the Idea of the University", Minerva, XXI (Spring 1983), pp. 37-80.
59. Robinson, Eric E., The New Polytechnics, op. cit., pp. 242-245. Appendix A reproduces the statement and the list of institutions.
60. University Development up to 1966, PRO ED188/10.
61. Blin-Stoyle, Roger (ed.), The Sussex Opportunity, op. cit., p. 2.
62. Higher Education Contacts, PRO FO924/1486.