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785889

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Private Sector
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to provide quality assurance for students studying degree courses at a private college whose degrees are validated by a university.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>Degree awarding bodies are ultimately responsible for the academic standards of any awards granted in their name and the quality of learning opportunities, regardless of where these are delivered or who provides them.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all designated Alternative Providers are currently subject to a rigorous, risk-based approach to quality assurance in line with the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, which applies across all UK providers of Higher Education (HE). Where an Alternative Provider is delivering validated HE provision, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) will consider how these collaborative working arrangements are effectively managed.</p><p> </p><p>A successful Higher Education Review (Alternative Providers) by the QAA is a pre-requisite for designation for student support for Alternative Providers, which are also expected to undergo annual monitoring visits from QAA.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2017 the National Audit Office published a report concluding progress has been made in strengthening the oversight of the Alternative Provider sector.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/11/2017 13:01:20 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

785890

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Private Sector
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions in the last three years the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has (1) raised concerns, and (2) taken action, regarding private colleges and providers of degrees.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>All higher education providers are autonomous and privately run. This includes Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded higher education institutions and alternative providers, which can be designated for student support purposes by the department. At the same time, some privately run institutions may be subject to obligations imposed on public authorities (e.g. the Freedom of Information Act 2000). As a result of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, the Office for Students will regulate all registered English higher education providers through its regulatory framework, which is currently being consulted on.</p><p> </p><p>69 concerns have been raised about higher education providers through the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Concerns Scheme since 2014-15. 23 have so far led to full investigations which subsequently required action by the provider (see attached table).</p><p> </p><p>Since 1 August 2016, concerns about publicly funded higher education providers in England are subject to the Unsatisfactory Quality Scheme managed by HEFCE. Therefore, the figures from 2016-17 onwards only relate to Alternative Providers which continue to be covered by QAA’s Concerns Scheme.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/11/2017 17:12:11 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name HL3038 - Attachment - 201117.docx title Concerns raised about Higher Education Providers
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

785891

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Private Sector
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have in place to ensure that students from disadvantaged backgrounds who attend private colleges receive the best quality of education and support.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>Following the passage of the Higher Education and Research Act (HERA), the Office for Students (OfS) will be established formally in January 2018. It will provide, for the first time, a single regulator for higher education (HE) providers regardless of how they are funded. The OfS will have powers to assess the quality of, and standards applied to, all English HE provision. Quality will be built into every stage of the new regulatory system, the details of which are currently being consulted on. There will continue to be tough and rigorous tests for providers who want to enter the system and enable students from all backgrounds to receive funding.</p><p> </p><p>Under the OfS, all HE providers in receipt of public funding will have to demonstrate their commitment to widening participation. They will be required to have either an access and participation plan approved by the OfS (for those in the “Approved (fee cap)” category of registration wishing to charge higher level tuition fees), or an access and participation statement (for those in the “Approved (fee cap)” category only charging fees at the basic level).</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/11/2017 13:02:53 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

785892

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Private Sector
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to ensure the legitimacy and integrity of student enrolment processes at private colleges.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>All higher education providers are autonomous and privately run. This includes Higher Education Funding Council for England funded higher education institutions and alternative providers, which can be designated for student support purposes by the department. At the same time, some privately run institutions may be subject to obligations imposed on public authorities (e.g. the Freedom of Information Act 2000). As a result of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, the Office for Students will regulate all registered English higher education providers through its regulatory framework, which is currently being consulted on.</p><p> </p><p>It is for individual higher education providers to determine their own enrolment processes and minimum criteria for entry onto their courses. However, the UK Quality Code for Higher Education sets out the expectations that all providers of UK higher education are required to meet. It sets out the following expectations about recruitment, selection and admission to higher education:</p><p> </p><p>“Recruitment, selection, and admission policies and procedures adhere to the principles of fair admission. They are transparent, reliable, valid, inclusive and underpinned by appropriate organisational structures and processes. They support higher education providers in the selection of students who are able to complete their programme.”</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/11/2017 17:23:00 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

785893

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grafton College of Management Sciences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when Grafton College of Management Sciences in London was last inspected; and whether that inspection raised any issues or concerns.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>Grafton College of Management Sciences’ last Higher Education Review (Alternative Providers) by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) took place from 20 to 23 June 2016. QAA’s report, including issues and concerns raised through the review, is available on the QAA website.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/11/2017 13:01:47 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

775991

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to increase the diversity of the undergraduate body of students at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are entering at record rates to the most selective universities. There are also record entry rates across all ethnic groups.</p><p>The guidance to the Director of Fair Access (DfA), published in February 2016, asked for the most selective institutions, to make faster progress on widening access, and to ensure their outreach is more focused. This report can be found in the attached document.</p><p>The DfA has agreed access agreements for 2018/19 with plans for universities to spend more than £860 million on measures to continue to support improving access and student success for students from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds, up significantly from £404 million in 2009. We are introducing sweeping reforms through legislation. The Higher Education and Research Act includes a transparency duty requiring all universities to publish applications, offers, and acceptance and retention rates broken down by gender, ethnicity and social economic background. This will help to hold them to account for their performance on access and retention. In addition, we expect all universities, particularly the most selective, to help raise attainment and support school improvement, including through school sponsorship and by establishing new state schools.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 06/11/2017 18:00:41 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

764348

registered interest
date	02/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they intend to take to address the shortage of applications for secondary teacher training places in subjects not expected to reach the targets set by the teacher supply model for September.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The number of teachers is at an all-time high: there are now 457,300 full time equivalent teachers, up 15,500 from 2010. The number of new teachers entering our classrooms continues to outnumber those who retire or leave, and the number of teachers returning to the profession is 8% higher than in 2011.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to offer generous bursaries to recruit the best graduates into the profession. From 2018 we are increasing funding across all high priority subjects. Our prestigious scholarship scheme will also continue, offering a package of tailored support and up to £28,000 tax-free for scholars in six subjects. We are also introducing a new style bursary for mathematics teachers with early retention payments.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to these generous incentives, teachers will benefit from the newly announced rise in the student loan repayment threshold and we will be piloting a new student loan reimbursement programme for science and Modern Foreign Language (MFL) teachers in the early years of their career, targeted in the areas of the country that need them most. We have also recently announced a £30 million investment in support for schools that struggle most with recruitment and retention.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 16/10/2017 13:33:37 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

764349

registered interest
date	02/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many School Direct salaried places have been offered in secondary schools for September; and what were the comparative numbers for (1) 2015, and (2) 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education allocates initial teacher training (ITT) places to accredited ITT providers in England. We allocate more places each year than are required, as we do not expect to fill every place. The number of trainee teachers who actually start courses with those ITT providers is published in the ITT Census in November each year.</p><p>The available information for the years requested is summarised in the attached table.</p><p>ITT allocations are published in the ‘Allocations’ section of the department’s ‘Statistics: initial teacher training’ webpage. The number of new entrants to ITT is published in the ITT Census, available in the ‘Census data’ section of the same webpage.</p><p>Please note that there is no allocations publication for 2016/17, as the department did not allocate ITT places. ITT providers were allowed to recruit as many trainees as they felt necessary (subject to a limited number of controls) until the system had recruited sufficient trainees at the national level.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 16/10/2017 16:54:32 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name HL1686 table attachment.docx title School Direct salaried places table
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

764350

registered interest
date	02/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the implications for school budgets of an increase in staff salaries of more than one per cent.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>We will publish evidence on the affordability of increases to teachers' pay as part of the department’s input to the School Teachers’ Review Body consideration on teachers’ pay for 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2017 we announced an additional £1.3bn for schools and high needs across 2018-19 and 2019-20, in addition to the schools budget set at Spending Review 2015. This means funding per pupil for schools and high needs will be maintained in real terms for the next two years. And following our announcement in September 2017, for the first time, under the national funding formula, school funding will be distributed based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the country.</p><p> </p><p>While the way schools are funded is important, it is also vital that schools themselves continue to get the best value from their resources, to improve pupil outcomes and promote social mobility. Alongside our substantial investment, we are committed to helping schools improve their efficiency in order to achieve this.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 16/10/2017 13:31:22 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

764351

registered interest
date	02/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Statistics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that statistics issued by the Department for Education are of the highest quality.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education takes its responsibilities around statistics very seriously and has strong processes in place to ensure its statistics are of the highest quality. The Department’s statistical policy on quality assurance is published and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/622918/Quality_Assurance_in_DfE.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/622918/Quality_Assurance_in_DfE.pdf</a> and has been attached. The Department works closely with the UK Statistics Authority as it develops its statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 16/10/2017 16:54:38 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name Quality_Assurance_in_DfE.pdf title HL1688
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey