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HANSARDHigher Education ReformAs usual, the hon. Lady has more words than actions. None of those actions was put in place either in Wales, where Labour is running the education system, or in the UK when it was…17 Jul 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am delighted to. We have a constructive relationship with the Treasury, whether on childcare, school funding or extra budgeting, and in this particular case what we have done,…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformI thank my hon. Friend for his remarks, and I very much agree that this is about choice—the lifelong loan entitlement, degree apprenticeships and all of the other choices—and…17 Jul 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can assure my hon. Friend that I am more than capable of defining what a woman is. It is true that some schools are asking for guidance in this area, so we intend to bring…17 Jul 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I have pointed out, we do intend to legislate for the children not in school measures and put attendance on a statutory footing when the legislative timetable allows, looking…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformYes. The University of Buckingham has taken an excellent leadership position and its two-year degree is very much welcomed by many people. We will introduce the lifelong loan…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformThe hon. Lady makes an interesting point, but at the moment the OfS has 18 providers under investigation for poor quality. There are many more providers, and we have a standard…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformI thank the hon. Lady. Harper Adams University is a fantastic university. It does a fantastic range of courses, more and more looking at agri-tech, the technology within…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are continuing to close that gap, and we have made unbelievable progress—more in the last 13 years than ever in this country. We will…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformThe quality of the courses on offer applies to everybody. If we change the quality for domestic students, it will then be the same quality for international students, which is…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy hon. Friend knows that we have already looked at that in careful detail. It is kept under review, and we recently made changes to the taught course route.17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformNot all the things I have brought forward today have already been announced. The information on foundation degrees is new, and the work we are doing with the OfS is also new. We…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformAbsolutely not, no. I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has asked this question, because our policy is about widening participation and making sure that education is…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformI thank my right hon. Friend for all the work that he did in this area. Yes, I understand the difficulty of choosing a blunt number or tool. That is why I have asked the Office…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy right hon. Friend puts his finger on a debate that is going on in our universities right now, and I know it is part of the discussions between university lecturers and…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformAbsolutely not. I have been working on this policy with many former Ministers, even since I was the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister. We have been working on this for a long…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformIt is important. Young people have suffered already a lot during covid. They have invested in their degree and put all the hard work in. It is only right that they should have…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformI know that my right hon. Friend is a huge champion of Anglia Ruskin University. I am delighted about the number of medical doctors and the new medical schools, which, as she…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformI am a huge supporter of our creative and arts industries, which are among our largest, and we are very successful in them. I work with them a lot to ensure that we can deliver…17 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformNo, I think that the hon. Member has got it completely wrong. Under the Conservatives, an 18-year-old from a disadvantaged background is 86% more likely to go to university than…17 Jul 2023