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date	12/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what arrangements are in place for students who leave a university prior to completing their course to have their learning accredited in order to facilitate future transfer to another course at a different higher education institution.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL4642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the flexibility of higher education provision and student choice. We are currently considering the evidence gathered via the recent call for evidence on <em>Accelerated Courses and Switching University or Degree, </em>and engaging stakeholders, to understand arrangements currently in place for supporting student transfer and any barriers to take up.</p><p>There are no regulatory barriers to students choosing to leave university prior to completing their course and having their learning accredited by a different higher education institution.</p><p>English universities are independent, autonomous bodies and it is their responsibility to decide how to recognise or accredit prior learning so they admit students who are able to succeed at that institution or on a particular course. Government has no power to interfere in university admissions.</p><p>Sound practice in English university recruitment, selection and admission is underpinned by the principles of fair admissions, or <em>Schwartz principles,</em> and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education’s <em>UK Quality Code</em>.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 19/01/2017 16:16:59 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

672306

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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 assessment they have made of the extent to which students have been admitted to Russell Group universities having had their prior learning from other institutions accredited to allow entry mid-course; and what evidence they used to support that assessment.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL4643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England and Higher Education Statistics Agency do not gather information on students who have had their prior learning from other institutions accredited to allow entry mid-course. The issue of improving understanding of student transfer was raised during our recent the call for evidence on <em>Accelerated Courses and Switching University or Degree. </em>We received over 4,500 responses to this and published a summary of the evidence we gathered on 20 December 2016.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 19/01/2017 16:22:02 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

672307

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many students who dropped out of English universities in 2010–11 returned to higher education within three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL4644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>The information requested can only be made available at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 19/01/2017 16:27:49 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough