Foreign Secretary announces new support for Gaza students to study in UK
Yvette Cooper says support aims to help to secure the future of the next generation of Palestinian leaders
The Foreign Secretary has confirmed a group of high-achieving students holding fully funded scholarships and meeting UK immigration rules will be helped to leave Gaza to continue their studies here.
In a Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament Yvette Cooper said the move build on more than 100 fully funded scholarship students that the government supported to come to the UK this academic year from the region.
The group includes a number of Chevening Scholars, and the programme, funded by the Foreign Office, will award scholarships for fully-funded Masters studies to individuals with leadership potential.
It aims to help to secure the future of the next generation of Palestinian leaders.
Cooper said: “The UK must continue to support students and injured children from Palestine.
“Talented young people from across Gaza must not be denied their chance to study because of the horrendous conditions and restrictions they still face.
“We will continue to run special arrangements to help Chevening scholars and other students with places at world-class UK universities to support the next generation of Palestinian leaders.
“We’re also helping some of the most vulnerable children to leave Gaza and get expert medical attention in the NHS, building on similar evacuations we facilitated last year.”
The statement also outlined new evacuations of critically ill children, with immediate family members, in need of specialist medical support available in the UK following a pause due to the regional conflict.
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