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<p>In Further Education, we are providing up to £96 million to support disadvantaged
students whose studies have been disrupted.</p><p>We have announced a number of measures
to help ensure there are no barriers to students being able to progress to Higher
Education in 20/21. We have lifted caps on domestic medicine and dentistry courses
in the next academic year and we are supporting providers to offer places to as many
students who have met the grades for their current offer as they have physical capacity
for, and where there are clinical placements available, through additional grant funding
to support the costs of this provision. Health Education England and the Office for
Students will be contacting all medical and dental schools to discuss their capacity
to take on additional students in the 2020/21 academic year.</p><p>I can now confirm
that providers will be eligible to bid for a share of up to £10 million funding to
support capital expenditure on infrastructure required to accommodate additional students
recruited as a result of the changed policy on A level grades. The fund will be administered
by the Office for Students, and providers will be eligible to bid for projects that
support expansion in 2020/21.</p><p>Additional teaching grant funding will also be
provided to increase capacity in medical, nursing, STEM and other high-cost subjects
which are vital to the country’s social needs and economy. All high cost subjects,
which already receive additional funding from the Office for Students will potentially
see further increases where there is an unexpectedly high distribution of students.
The Office for Students will consult the sector on the details of how the allocations
are made.</p><p>We will also be considering all Departmental funding as part of the
Spending Review.</p>
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