THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: British universities severed links with Colonel Gaddafi’s regime last night as the full extent of how they have profited from Libya was revealed.A string of universities said they had pulled out of a deal with Tripoli to train hundreds of health workers.
The disclosure came as official statistics showed virtually every university in Britain is being paid by the Libyan government to educate students.
The 110 institutions registered a total of 2,880 students from Libya last year, including judges and police officers - part of Gaddafi’s feared security network.
Critics said the scale of Libyan deals strengthened the case for a full-scale inquiry into the links between British universities and Tripoli.
Among those which took Libyan students were members of the Russell Group, which represents the 20 top UK universities, including Leeds, St Andrews, King’s College London and Glasgow.
Five universities last night said they had pulled out of a deal with Libya to train 300 health workers, believed to be nurses, each year.
Manchester Metropolitan, Teesside, Liverpool John Moores, Glamorgan and Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh had been in talks with Libya’s Ministry of Health over a deal worth an estimated £4million. Read on and comment >>> Michael Howie | Saturday, March 12, 2011
