Dr Susan Blackmore, of the Universityof the WestofEngland, Bristol, who carried out the research, told the BBC's Today programme, that she defined ESP as communication between people which should not happen according to what is known about how the brain works.
Crossbench peer and chancellor of the Universityof the WestofEngland 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.