Michelle Donelan: Ukrainians aged 19 and over and their family members settled under the Home Office Ukraine schemes in the UK can access training to gain the skills they need to move on with their lives. This includes immediate eligibility for provision funded through the Adult Education Budget, including English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and level 3 free courses for jobs offer. Ukrainians...
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Michelle Donelan: The department is currently reviewing options for uprating maximum grants and loans for the 2023/24 academic year. Maximum grants and loans for living costs were increased by 3.1% this academic year, and the department has announced that they will increase by a further 2.3% in the 2022/23 academic year. In addition, we are freezing maximum tuition fees for the 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25...
Michelle Donelan: The Strategic Priorities Grant (SPG) is funding supplied by the government on an annual basis to support teaching and students in higher education (HE), including expensive to deliver subjects, such as science and engineering, students at risk of discontinuing their studies, and world-leading specialist providers. We asked the Office for Students (OfS) to reform the SPG in the 2021/22...
Michelle Donelan: The department is continuing to work closely with the education sector and across government to ensure that students are supported and have a range of options available to them during this difficult time. We know that universities in Ukraine are striving to maintain the education of their students under extremely challenging conditions. We are therefore encouraging them to contact their...
Michelle Donelan: I have been relentlessly focused on this area, allocating £15 million to student mental health services to support the transition from school to university via the Office for Students. I have worked with the Office for Students to deliver and to keep student space and with the Department of Health and Social Care. I held a summit just last week with the Minister for Care and Mental Health,...
Michelle Donelan: For the first time, universities will be subject to stringent minimum thresholds for student outcomes on completion rates and graduate jobs. Boots-on-the-ground inspections have begun, and through our transparency drive to give students all the information that they need and a focus on participation and outcomes, we are driving out the pockets of poor quality in our world-leading higher...
Michelle Donelan: As the hon. Member will know only too well, we responded to the Augar report in full a few months ago. We tried to get the right balance in who pays, between the graduate and the taxpayer, so that we have a fair system in which no student will pay back more in real terms than they borrowed. This Government are focused on outcomes, making sure that degrees pay and deliver graduate jobs.
Michelle Donelan: Access to higher education (HE) should be based on a student’s attainment and their ability to succeed, rather than their background. In November 2021, the department issued guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) to refocus the Access and Participation Regime. We asked them to create a system that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring students can make the...
Michelle Donelan: Consultancy expenditure is published in the department’s annual report and accounts, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports . Although the audit is still ongoing, figures for the 2021/22 financial year are included. As a result, this value may be subject to change. The figures below cover the entirety of the departmental group, including executive...
Michelle Donelan: Official Statistics on student retention are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) as part of their UK Performance Indicators. For the academic years 2014/15 to 2019/20, the following link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicat ors/non-continuation/table-t3 shows the number of undergraduate entrants[1] at each English higher education provider and...
Michelle Donelan: Wherever possible a speech transcript will be checked by a member of the department’s communications team or other members of the private office staff who are attending the speaking event, or watching it if it is being broadcast. This will then be published on the department’s website as ‘as delivered’. Where it is not possible for this verification to take place, the last cleared...
Michelle Donelan: The department has no plans to issue further guidance to the higher education (HE) sector with regards to COVID-19. On 21 February 2022, the Prime Minister announced the Living with COVID-19 guidance which set out how England would move into a new phase of managing COVID-19. On 1 April 2022, the department published ‘Emergency planning and response for education, childcare, and children’s...
Michelle Donelan: I will continue to work closely with the higher education (HE) sector to support the 2022 intake of students to ensure they can go on to their next step in life following A level and T Level Results day on 18 August, whether that’s university, on-the-job training, moving into employment or continuing to study elsewhere. In November 2021 I wrote to Vice Chancellors to recognise the hard...
Michelle Donelan: It is important to carefully manage dental and medical places to ensure a sustainable pipeline of practitioners to the NHS across all regions of the UK. The department will continue to monitor current arrangements to ensure student intakes are in line with workforce requirements. However, we have no immediate plans to increase the number of medical and dental school places. The number of...
