Universities
rine complaint comes round and round, l_lsignalled by the unmistakable tone of 'more in sorrow than in anger'. It is at the changed system of grants for overseas students at British universities — a system which, even though now changed again, still leaves our universities far more expen- sive than America's. Cambridge men speak mournfully of a new generation heading for Harvard and Stanford. Friendships, attitudes, business connec- tions (they fear) will follow. The complaint is not new — in Malaysia it was voiced more in anger than in sorrow, and nearly broke off diplomatic relations. We shall be the losers by it. How, though, to finance the right candidates, but not those appall- ing statistics which establish that three- fifths of the world's surface is covered with sea water and the rest with Iranian stu- dents?
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