Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 4 July 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to encourage businesses to sponsor undergraduate and postgraduate places at university.
We want our universities to work with business across all their activities including to promote sponsorship of students. 80% of universities say they are engaged with employers but this can improve. We will create more flexibility in our control of overall student numbers so that there are more opportunities to attract extra higher education places fully funded by employers or charities providing there is fair access and no reduction in academic entry standards.
We also announced in our White Paper “Students at the Heart of the System” (cm 8122) that we had invited Professor Sir Tim Wilson to review how we make the UK the best place in the world for university-industry collaboration.
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