Educational Institutions: Licensing

Home Office written question – answered at on 10 August 2015.

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Photo of Madeleine Moon Madeleine Moon Labour, Bridgend

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will confirm how many publicly-funded colleges have been (a) granted and (b) refused international licences to run privately-funded courses in each year since 2008.

Photo of James Brokenshire James Brokenshire Minister of State (Home Office) (Security and Immigration)

The number of publicly-funded colleges that had an application for a Tier 4 sponsor licence (a) granted and (b) refused, in each year since 2008, is:

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Total

Granted

188

333

37

33

32

38

21

5

687

Refused

6

36

13

13

4

7

11

2

92

An application may be refused for various reasons. We do not collate information on the courses each sponsor offers or the reason(s) for the refusal of each application.

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