The British Council in its annual booklet “Statistics of Students from Abroad in the United Kingdom” for the academic year 1984-85 reports that there were 225 (including 29 women) students from Tanzania in British universities. Of these, 192 were post-graduates and 33 under-graduates and 172 were in their first year of study. A further 62 (13 women) were studying in polytechnics (28 in the 1st year) and 103 (26 women) were in other institutions of higher and further education (79 in the 1st year). The grand total of all foreign students in Britain in 1964/85 was 55,608 including 28,232 from the Commonwealth and 6,128 from EEC countries.