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Angela Constance: ...there is time later, Mr Brodie. I am keen to make more progress. In summary, we will require HEIs to advertise those positions. Interested applicants will be selected for an interview on the basis of their ability to carry out the duties that are associated with leading a modern Scottish HEI. If successful at an interview process that is managed by a nomination committee, which will...
Jo Johnson: The Higher Education and Research Bill sets out the most significant legislative reforms of the sector for 25 years. The world of higher education has changed fundamentally since the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, leaving a regulatory system that is complex, fragmented and out of date. The sector has consistently called for new legislation to update the regulatory framework and just...
Lord Davies of Oldham: I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, that the issue needs to be addressed and that it gains in complexity against the background of changing educational demands. However, the amendments are not the solution to what I acknowledge is a complex problem. First, I shall address Amendment No. 347, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Lucas. Approximately 800,000 children each year benefit from...
Stewart Stevenson: In law, the ending of debt results in the legal status of "satisfaction". Would that things were so simple beyond the reach of the law in real life. Debt is the most powerful of slaveries. It is little wonder that the money lenders were the first people to be thrown out of the temple. However, without debt, the modern world would not exist. The folding green stuff in our pockets represents a...
Edward Timpson: ...that relate to transparency, joint commissioning, procurement and accountability. In doing so, I want to thank hon. Members who have made considered contributions and done sensible analysis of where the many problems that we are trying to address lie. These are all important aspects of the new system and run throughout the provisions. I hope that I can reassure hon. Members that the...
Viscount Younger of Leckie: My Lords, the transparency duty has generated much debate in both Houses and I am pleased to note that there is an appetite for further transparency to be brought to higher education as a whole. Indeed, this Bill and our accompanying reforms will mean that more information than ever before is published and made available to students. I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace, for his...
Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I shall address a few brief comments to a number of different Bills—some of them Home Office Bills and some of them not—and to two or three matters that I should have liked to see in the Queen's Speech but which were not. The common thread holding my remarks together is that they all refer to the way in which the proposed legislation will impact on children and young people. I...
Mr Norman St John-Stevas: I must treat with great weight any intervention by the hon. Gentleman. However, we differ in our assessment of the situation. Whatever the fine words which may have been used by the Secretary of State this afternoon, the voluntary schools have found the pressure brought to bear upon them such that, on the whole, they have had to go along with these proposals whether they wanted them or not....
Baroness Jolly: ...an excellent debate. It has been wide-ranging and based on experience and expertise, with many recurring themes. I promise that I will be positive where I can be. The Government recognise the scale of the issue. One in every 700 babies in England is born with some form of deafness and there are just under 10 million adults living with hearing loss. All these people will, at some point, be...
Fiona Hyslop: I welcome this opportunity to make a statement to the Parliament announcing the decisions that I have reached on how the Scottish Government intends to improve financial support for full-time higher education students, with an additional investment of £30 million from 2010-11. The Government's stated purpose is "to create a more successful country where all of Scotland can flourish through...
Adam Ingram: In my experience, the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Bill compares in its degree of difficulty only to the Mental Health (Scotland) Bill, which we passed in the previous session of Parliament. With the latter bill, we at least had the benefit of a comprehensive report by the Millan committee as a benchmark. The SNP has approached the bill in a constructive manner,...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: .... I have a rather long speaking note, but my speaking notes get shorter as the day goes by, so I am not going to drone on for hours. I believe that all young people should benefit from staying in education or training until the age of 18 and that appropriately tailored, flexible and personalised programmes of learning will be essential to engage some of the hardest-to-reach young people....
John Hayes: I beg to move amendment 73, in clause 4, page 6, line 8, at end insert— ‘(2A) The OfS will compile an annual review of registered higher education providers, ranking their compliance with their duties under sections A1 to A3; to be made publicly available by such means as the OfS considers appropriate.” In moving the amendment, I draw attention to my entry in the Register of...
Mr David Rendel: I beg to move, That this House believes that the best possible education of its citizens is both a principal duty of, and an immeasurable benefit to, any civilised society, and therefore deplores the rising levels of student debt and the resulting disincentive to continue in education post-school; condemns the failure of the Government to invest in Higher Education all the extra resources...
Linda Fabiani: I am not a member of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee or the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee, both of which dealt with this bill, but I was pleasantly surprised when I read the bill, because it was good to see that ministers will now take some responsibility for the SQA. That should be welcomed by everyone. I feel strongly that one of the major factors in the problems...
Mr Norman St John-Stevas: I beg to move. That this House, in view of the widespread disquiet amongst parents about the standards of conduct and learning in certain schools, calls upon Her Majesty's Government to modify its educational policies so as to preserve the rights of parents guaranteed by Section 76 of the Education Act 1944, and to raise academic standards in schools; and, in particular, to withdraw Circular...
John Hayes: They would be irrelevant were it not for the fact that we know—do we not?—that many high-performing students from state schools do not get to some of the universities that they might get to if they had the wherewithal that is available to people such as he and I and will be available by proxy to our offspring. I have not finished my list, but that brings me conveniently to advice and...
Baroness Wilcox of Newport: My Lords, today’s debate covers some of the most important issues to a well-functioning society. I am delighted to be speaking to them on behalf of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition. Arguably, education, welfare, health and social care and public services are critical and central to the Government’s latest populist phrase, levelling up. That is why it is so regrettable that the measures...
Elaine Murray: Mr Monteith may be right—I could not possibly comment. Sometimes, it seems that the only news about the Scottish Parliament is bad news, so what most of us heard of the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Act 2000, from the second year of the Parliament's first session, was about problems with its financial memorandum, rather than the educational tenets in the act. The act contained two...
Julie Cooper: ...serve under your chairmanship, Mr Owen. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield) for securing this debate and for his powerful contribution, which set us off on the right footing. The latest figures identify close to 200,000 young carers, but it is likely that the real figure is much higher, because many child carers, some as young as four years...
