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<p>The Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social Care have
worked in partnership with higher education (HE) institutions to deliver an asymptomatic
mass testing programme to ensure that students could travel home from university in
December and that students reading a subject listed within the guidance as essential
in order to support the pipeline of future workers (as well as those with exemptions
as outlined in guidance) can travel back to university safely and with confidence
while protecting themselves, their friends, family and wider community.</p><p>Officials
worked with the sector to ensure that almost all HE institutions were ready to provide
2 COVID-19 tests to students that returned in January 2021. I also wrote to Vice Chancellors
on 21 January 2021, announcing that providers should commence regular ongoing lateral
flow testing from 25 January 2021.</p>
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