In their letter to Mr Cameron, the five select committee chairmen urge "further action to encourage international university students to study in the UK".
All students from outside the EU wishing to study in the UK need to have their visa application sponsored by education establishments which are licensed by the government.
It will now be subject to a 12-month probation period in order to build up a track record of compliance with the rules of sponsoring students to study in the UK. During this time the number of students it can recruit from abroad will also be limited.
Crossbench peer and chancellor of the University of the West of England Baroness Butler-Sloss said she was concerned that "Malaysian students who come to Bristol to do the bar vocational course or the solicitors course in order to go back and better run the rule of law in Malaysia" would be unable to study in the UK after the changes.
Apparently in a study done by the Deafness Research UK in conjunction with Dr. Brad Backus of University College London, 14 out of 15 toys tested produced noise levels above the recommended safety limit when held close to the ear. 8 of the 15 were just fine during normal use, but the three worst offenders -- a machine gun, a tommy gun and a cap gun -- are on the "avoid" list.
Palm isn't so optimistic about the proceedings: according to a study it commissioned in the UK with lpsos MORI, 70% of people who send messages at midnight experience a delay in delivery, with places like London experience 77% delays, and 23% of Britons waiting over six hours for their text messages to arrive.
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"What is apparent from this research is that greater awareness is needed of the serious neuropsychological effects of stimulant drugs, to halt the growing use of stimulant drugs in the UK." The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In a UK-wide study done by the Royal Association for Disability Rights in 2009, 15% of those with mental health problems did not disclose them to anybody at work, compared with just 4% for those with other disabilities.
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The study collected data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a national study of infants born in the UK between 2000-2002.
The first national study into Caesarean sections in the UK is discovering that the surgical procedure is now used in one in five births.
The current undergraduate finance model, where students borrow to study for three years in a UK institution, does not provide for a future in which students might want to take course units from a range of universities, both in the UK and abroad.
In this study, carried out in 2002, scientists from the UK's University of Edinburgh and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the US, examined 38 women who were pregnant while at or near the World Trade Center when it was attacked.
"It is fair to say this is an optimistic look forward, and the situation will be worse than what we presented in the study, " the UK Space Agency delegate to the IADC told BBC News.
The findings were unchanged when the researchers took into consideration other factors, such as obesity and smoking, that could have influenced the results in the group of UK civil servants who were included in the study.
"Ours is the first study to have been carried out in the UK and the results are worrying, " he said.
Greenpeace says one study of 70 municipal waste incinerators in the UK operating between 1974 and 1987, and 307 hospital waste incinerators from 1953 to 1980, found a doubling in cancer deaths among children living nearby.
Mutations have previously been found in many parts of the UK but the Huddersfield University study is the first time the extent of resistance has been measured in the West.
The OFT study said little action was needed in regards to the UK petrol and diesel market.
Scientists will randomly select 400 patients who have undergone surgery from hospitals across the UK to take part in the study.
In a study of more than 13, 000 UK children, five-years-olds were about twice as likely to have asthma if they were not conceived naturally.
The findings of the new Australian Consumers' Association study contradict those of study carried out by the Consumers' Association in the UK in April.
But a huge study of suicides in India published last July in the UK medical journal, the Lancet, found these figures under-report the problem and suggests there were 19, 000 suicides in 2010.
Changes to fees mean students from the rest of the UK will have to pay more to study in Scotland.
He said he hoped common sense would now prevail so that students could come into the UK to study English with a lower level in the language, equivalent to having studied it for 150 to 200 hours.
John Stewart, chairman of the UK Noise Association in London said the study echoed anecdotal reports from people living under flight paths who said even when levels were within recommended safety limits, noise could still be bad for your health.
The study, which took place in 92 intensive care units in the UK, found that 62% of patients who were intubated were alive 180 days later.
And, as is well known, these foreign students play an important role in the finances of the UK institutions at which they study.
Surgeons in Newcastle have carried out eight EVLP transplants and now the five transplant centres covering the UK are adopting the technique in a three year study.
Scientists from the UK Childhood Cancer Study, measured radon and gamma rays in the bedrooms and living rooms of 2, 226 children with cancer and 3, 773 healthy children.
The funding body is due to contact higher education institutions in the UK, some of which already have online study facilities, asking them for feedback on the plans.
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