division_name: Higher Education and Research Bill - <i>Report (3rd Day)</i>
motion: <p class="italic" pid="b1656.1/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Moved by Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1656.1/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">146: After Clause 84, insert the following new Clause&#8212;&#8220;Unincorporated higher education providers: financial support Students enrolled on a course provided by a higher education provider that is not incorporated under the law of the United Kingdom do not qualify for publicly funded student support.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1663.1/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Moved by Lord Dubs</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1663.1/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">147: After Clause 84, insert the following new Clause&#8212;&#8220;Access to support for students recognised as needing protection(1) Within six months from the day on which this Act comes into force, the Secretary of State must, by regulations, make provision for financial support for higher education courses to be offered to students with certain immigration statuses.(2) The regulations specified in subsection (1) must include, but need not be restricted to, provision for&#8212;(a) persons granted humanitarian protection and their family members; and(b) persons who have been brought to the United Kingdom under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme, or any equivalent scheme, and their family members to be eligible for the support set out in subsection (3).(3) The support set out in this subsection is&#8212;(a) home fees for a higher education course, if they have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom since being granted leave, and(b) student loans for a higher education course, if they have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom since being granted leave, and are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the first day of the first academic term of that course.(4) In this section&#8212;&#8220;home fees&#8221; means fees for a higher education course charged to persons considered as &#8220;qualifying persons&#8221; under regulations made under the Higher Education Act 2004;&#8220;student loans&#8221; means loans made to students in connection with their undertaking of a higher education course under the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1668.1/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Moved by Viscount Younger of Leckie</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1668.1/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">148: Clause 85, page 57, line 17, leave out from &#8220;insert&#8221; to end of line 18 and insert &#8220;&#8220;, and includes an institution which is treated as continuing to be a qualifying institution for the purposes of Part 2 of that Act (see section 20A(2) of that Act)&#8221;.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1668.1/3" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">149: Clause 85, page 57, line 22, leave out &#8220;paragraph (da)&#8221; and insert &#8220;paragraphs (da) and (ea)&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1668.3/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Moved by Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB)</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1668.3/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">150: After Clause 85, insert the following new Clause&#8212;&#8220;Students and academic staff at higher education providers(1) The Secretary of State has a duty to encourage international students to attend higher education providers covered by this Act, and UKRI must take every possible opportunity to encourage and facilitate the maximum co-operation between British higher education and research establishments and those based outside the UK, in particular with projects and programmes funded by the European Union.(2) The Secretary of State shall ensure that no student, either undergraduate or postgraduate, who has received an offer to study at such a higher education provider, be treated for public policy purposes as a long term migrant to the UK, for the duration of their studies at such an establishment.(3) Persons, who are not British citizens, who receive an offer to study as an undergraduate or postgraduate, or who receive an offer of employment as a member of academic staff at a higher education provider, shall not, in respect of that course of study, or that employment, be subject to more restrictive immigration controls or conditions than were in force for a person in their position on the day on which this Act was passed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="b1688.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 313, Noes 219.</p>