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	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to monitor Qatar's role in the funding of university programmes in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	282243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Students, as the regulator for higher education (HE) in England, is responsible for assessing and monitoring the financial sustainability of registered HE providers. UK universities are autonomous institutions and are therefore responsible for making business planning decisions and ensuring their institutions’ financial sustainability.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 03/09/2019 07:12:21 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

754640

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote UK higher education abroad to prospective international students.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	6791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government fully recognises the important contribution that international students make to the UK’s higher education sector, both economically and culturally. We welcome genuine students and there remains no limit on the number of international students who can come here to study. The Government actively encourages study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and through the British Council, which promotes the UK in over 100 countries, connecting millions of people with the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>Numbers of international (non-EU domiciled) students studying at UK universities remain at record highs - over 170,000 non-EU entrants to UK higher education institutions for the sixth year running. The latest Home Office visa data also shows that, since 2011, university-sponsored visa applications have risen by around 12 per cent.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/09/2017 06:50:23 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

670760

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Males
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that working class, white males are better able to access higher education.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	59364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>We want to ensure that everyone with the potential has the opportunity to benefit from higher education, regardless of their background. In our most recent Guidance to the Director of Fair Access, we asked him to focus universities on increasing the participation of white, working-class boys in higher education.</p><p>We are also legislating to introduce a Transparency Duty on institutions which would require them to publish application, offer and drop-out rates by socio-economic background, ethnicity and gender. Other measures in the Higher Education and Research Bill focusing on widening participation by under-represented groups include:</p><p>o bringing together Office for Fair Access (OFFA) and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) resources and expertise in the proposed Office for Students (OfS) to rationalise and improve delivery;</p><p>o ensuring access and participation plans explicitly cover access, progression and student success; placing an overarching duty on the OfS to have regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity in relation to access and participation in all that it does; and</p><p>o ensuring the Director for Fair Access and Participation has a clear role within the OfS in relation to access and participation activities.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/01/2017 17:28:16 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell