Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 11 March 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to ensure that universities use capital investments for the benefit of the student body and the wider community rather than enhancement of their prestige or status.
Higher education institutions are autonomous bodies. It is for them to decide how they manage their investments and deliver learning to meet the needs of their students. Government cannot intervene in these decisions. In 2008, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) introduced a capital investment framework which all English universities and higher education colleges must participate in to receive capital funding through HEFCE. This framework includes consideration of how staff and student surveys relate to the fitness for purpose of the infrastructure, involving students in the formulation of capital projects and estates strategies and public reporting of environmental performance.
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