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1015206

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	British Students Abroad: Republic of Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions the Prime Minister has had with the President of the Republic of Ireland on the undergraduates from England studying at Irish universities; and whether the current financial arrangements will be made available to (a) them and (b) EU citizens after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	East Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Hugo Swire
uin	195518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK government is firmly committed to maintaining the Common Travel Area (CTA) and to protecting the rights enjoyed by UK and Irish nationals when in each other’s states.</p><p> </p><p>Article 5 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to the draft Withdrawal Agreement builds on December’s joint report and confirms that the UK and Ireland can continue to make arrangements between themselves concerning the CTA.</p><p> </p><p>This means that rights to enter, reside, work, study and access social security and public services will be preserved on a reciprocal basis for UK and Irish nationals in the other’s state.</p><p> </p><p>Arrangements on access to student finance support for other EU nationals starting a course in England after the transition period ends are under consideration.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 30/11/2018 16:43:35 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire

1012313

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress the Government has made on its plans to extend maintenance loans to students taking part-time distance learning courses from the 2019-20 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	194709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) publish statistics annually on student support payments by academic year: <a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>. Early statistics for the academic year 2018/19 show that as at 31 October 2018, 1,500 English domiciled students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan. Information on the total number of part-time students in the academic year 2018/19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the government response to the recent consultation on part-time maintenance loans, we would like to extend these new loans to distance learning courses, but we must maintain confidence in the student finance system and ensure that adequate controls are in place to prevent the misuse of public funds.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, ministers would only extend these loans to distance learners if robust controls are put in place to manage the risks associated with that mode of study. The department is currently considering those controls, and a final decision regarding whether it is feasible to extend maintenance loans to distance learners will be made once this scrutiny is completed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194710 194711 question first answered 27/11/2018 17:25:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1012314

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the eligibility criteria for maintenance loans in relation to students taking part-time distance learning courses.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	194710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) publish statistics annually on student support payments by academic year: <a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>. Early statistics for the academic year 2018/19 show that as at 31 October 2018, 1,500 English domiciled students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan. Information on the total number of part-time students in the academic year 2018/19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the government response to the recent consultation on part-time maintenance loans, we would like to extend these new loans to distance learning courses, but we must maintain confidence in the student finance system and ensure that adequate controls are in place to prevent the misuse of public funds.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, ministers would only extend these loans to distance learners if robust controls are put in place to manage the risks associated with that mode of study. The department is currently considering those controls, and a final decision regarding whether it is feasible to extend maintenance loans to distance learners will be made once this scrutiny is completed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194709 194711 question first answered 27/11/2018 17:25:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1012315

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of part-time students are in receipt of maintenance loans from the Student Loans Company in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	194711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) publish statistics annually on student support payments by academic year: <a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>. Early statistics for the academic year 2018/19 show that as at 31 October 2018, 1,500 English domiciled students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan. Information on the total number of part-time students in the academic year 2018/19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the government response to the recent consultation on part-time maintenance loans, we would like to extend these new loans to distance learning courses, but we must maintain confidence in the student finance system and ensure that adequate controls are in place to prevent the misuse of public funds.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, ministers would only extend these loans to distance learners if robust controls are put in place to manage the risks associated with that mode of study. The department is currently considering those controls, and a final decision regarding whether it is feasible to extend maintenance loans to distance learners will be made once this scrutiny is completed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194709 194710 question first answered 27/11/2018 17:25:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1012316

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Part-time Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of students in part-time undergraduate higher education in each year from 2018-19 to 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	194712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The department does not forecast the number of students in part-time undergraduate higher education.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/11/2018 17:23:09 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1012368

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of a higher education provider’s Teaching Excellence Framework rating on the number of students that applied to study at that provider since the rating was awarded.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	194738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is to drive up standards of teaching quality in higher education, as well as to offer prospective students information about where to find high quality teaching and the most positive graduate outcomes.</p><p>We are assessing and evaluating the development of the TEF on an ongoing basis. Since 2016, we have published consultation reports, research reports and evaluation findings on the development of the TEF. The Office for Students also published its findings from the first year of the subject-level pilots on 22 October.</p><p>We intend to publish further research on the initial impact of the TEF, based on the provider-level evaluation 2016/17, in the New Year. That research report will include evidence, drawing on the views of providers and students, about the effect of the TEF on the choices made by students. It will also report on the perceptions of changes to institutional reputation that providers and students, both home and international, attribute to the TEF.</p><p>On 19 November, we announced the appointment of Dame Shirley Pearce as the independent reviewer of TEF. Dame Shirley Pearce will report on the operation of the TEF, in line with the remit set out for her in section 26 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. We expect her to report to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194739 194740 194741 question first answered 30/11/2018 11:27:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1012369

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Teaching Excellence Framework on improvements in the quality of teaching at higher education providers.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	194739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is to drive up standards of teaching quality in higher education, as well as to offer prospective students information about where to find high quality teaching and the most positive graduate outcomes.</p><p>We are assessing and evaluating the development of the TEF on an ongoing basis. Since 2016, we have published consultation reports, research reports and evaluation findings on the development of the TEF. The Office for Students also published its findings from the first year of the subject-level pilots on 22 October.</p><p>We intend to publish further research on the initial impact of the TEF, based on the provider-level evaluation 2016/17, in the New Year. That research report will include evidence, drawing on the views of providers and students, about the effect of the TEF on the choices made by students. It will also report on the perceptions of changes to institutional reputation that providers and students, both home and international, attribute to the TEF.</p><p>On 19 November, we announced the appointment of Dame Shirley Pearce as the independent reviewer of TEF. Dame Shirley Pearce will report on the operation of the TEF, in line with the remit set out for her in section 26 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. We expect her to report to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194738 194740 194741 question first answered 30/11/2018 11:27:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1012370

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Teaching Excellence Framework measures the quality of teaching at a higher education provider.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	194740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is to drive up standards of teaching quality in higher education, as well as to offer prospective students information about where to find high quality teaching and the most positive graduate outcomes.</p><p>We are assessing and evaluating the development of the TEF on an ongoing basis. Since 2016, we have published consultation reports, research reports and evaluation findings on the development of the TEF. The Office for Students also published its findings from the first year of the subject-level pilots on 22 October.</p><p>We intend to publish further research on the initial impact of the TEF, based on the provider-level evaluation 2016/17, in the New Year. That research report will include evidence, drawing on the views of providers and students, about the effect of the TEF on the choices made by students. It will also report on the perceptions of changes to institutional reputation that providers and students, both home and international, attribute to the TEF.</p><p>On 19 November, we announced the appointment of Dame Shirley Pearce as the independent reviewer of TEF. Dame Shirley Pearce will report on the operation of the TEF, in line with the remit set out for her in section 26 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. We expect her to report to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194738 194739 194741 question first answered 30/11/2018 11:27:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1012371

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect a higher education provider’s Teaching Excellence Framework rating has on a provider’s (a) national and (b) international reputation.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	194741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is to drive up standards of teaching quality in higher education, as well as to offer prospective students information about where to find high quality teaching and the most positive graduate outcomes.</p><p>We are assessing and evaluating the development of the TEF on an ongoing basis. Since 2016, we have published consultation reports, research reports and evaluation findings on the development of the TEF. The Office for Students also published its findings from the first year of the subject-level pilots on 22 October.</p><p>We intend to publish further research on the initial impact of the TEF, based on the provider-level evaluation 2016/17, in the New Year. That research report will include evidence, drawing on the views of providers and students, about the effect of the TEF on the choices made by students. It will also report on the perceptions of changes to institutional reputation that providers and students, both home and international, attribute to the TEF.</p><p>On 19 November, we announced the appointment of Dame Shirley Pearce as the independent reviewer of TEF. Dame Shirley Pearce will report on the operation of the TEF, in line with the remit set out for her in section 26 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. We expect her to report to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194738 194739 194740 question first answered 30/11/2018 11:27:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1012476

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Degrees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his planned timeframe is for two-year degree courses to be rolled out in universities.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	194688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>It is our intention to proceed with regulations to set the new accelerated degree fee caps as soon as possible, subject to parliamentary approval.</p><p>Once approved, providers will be able to offer accelerated degree courses at values up to the higher annual fee cap. It will be for providers to decide whether, as a result of this change, they will expand existing accelerated course provision or offer accelerated degrees for the first time.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/11/2018 17:22:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis