Russell Group Universities: Foreign Student Admissions - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 11:39 am on 1 February 2024.

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Photo of Lord Campbell-Savours Lord Campbell-Savours Labour 11:39, 1 February 2024

My Lords, as someone who benefited from free higher education in France, and in gratitude has remained a lifetime Francophile, I argue that the best way to develop sympathetic international relationships is to invest not by bringing the rich, unqualified undeserving into the United Kingdom just for the money, but bringing instead the brightest and the best from problematic parts of the world, even at our expense? Is that not one of the best investments we can make in developing international understanding?