Post-18 Education and Funding

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:26 pm on 4 June 2019.

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Photo of Damian Hinds Damian Hinds The Secretary of State for Education 5:26, 4 June 2019

I gently mention to the hon. Gentleman that in his work on the Education Committee he has had an opportunity to look at the variety of what is available in our higher education system, much of which is of the very highest quality and competes with the best in the world. We also need to make sure that everybody is getting good access to that very high quality, that participation in university is widely spread through our society and that we concentrate not just on access to higher education, but on access and successful participation. We need to work more on all those things, but it remains the case that under this Government more young people than ever before have had the opportunity to benefit from a university degree.