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- Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education (12 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: It is probably common ground between those on all three Front Benches that there is a problem of fair access to some of our research-intensive universities and to particular courses. Does the Minister not accept that the brave new world for which he is preparing the ground, with the connivance of those on the Conservative Front Bench, with fully variable market fees after the next general...
- Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Further Education (12 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many 19 to 24 year-olds are studying (a) full-time and (b) part-time on first Level 2, first Level 3, subsequent Level 2 and subsequent Level 3 qualifications.
- Bill Presented: Clause 47 — Provision of education for persons subject to youth detention (11 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: I have a couple of questions about the operation of the provisions in Lords amendment 64, which will give the young adult learners that the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) has just mentioned—as well as their parents and, presumably, carers—the right to complain. Will the Minister explain in what circumstances he or his successor would seek to intervene...
- Bill Presented: Clause 40 — Education and training for persons over compulsory school age: general duty (11 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: We have just had the experience of the penultimate chief executive of the LSC resigning in response to the capital programme fiasco. Who will require the chief executive of the YLPA to resign if something goes wrong on his or her watch?
- Bill Presented: Clause 40 — Education and training for persons over compulsory school age: general duty (11 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: Madam Deputy Speaker, you and everyone else will be relieved that I do not have any musical, theatrical, cinematic, artistic or any other analogies to make in my short remarks. I am pleased that the Minister is so delighted by the capital investment in Hartlepool sixth-form college—he may indeed be its finest product—but that delight will not be shared by many of his Labour, let...
- Bill Presented: Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill (11 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: I would like to begin by welcoming the Minister to our proceedings on this Bill. Two different Departments were responsible for the Bill when we began our progress with it through the House of Commons, but since then not only has there been a complete transformation of the ministerial team, but a completely new ministry has been created. In fact, I think that the Secretary of State for...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Skills for Growth (11 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: I welcome the fact that the Minister of State has come to the House today to make a statement on this announcement, in stark contrast to his colleague, the Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, who on Monday made a written statement on the long-awaited fees review, which has angered thousands of students throughout the country, including about 100 presidents of student...
- Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Further Education: Higher Education (11 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent assessment his Department has made of the performance of further education colleges in providing higher education courses.
- Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Further Education: Higher Education (11 Nov 2009)
Stephen Williams: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what his most recent estimate is of the proportion of students who complete a higher education qualification at a further education college who take up (a) further study and (b) employment.