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HANSARDHigher Education ReformThe hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point and I congratulate him on his achievements. Having gone from being a kid who could not speak a word of English to standing here as…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformI am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s support for the package. He is absolutely right to cite those who come out of their time serving their country with the opportunity to…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformThat is absolutely right. I could not have put it any better.24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformThe really important thing to remind the right hon. Lady is that no student will pay more than they have borrowed. That is the most powerful message we can send out to anyone…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Raising fees or interest rates would have been hugely unfair and debilitating. The consultation is a true consultation in the sense that we…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill that we are putting through at the moment will go even further in bringing the system much closer…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformThe hon. Gentleman will know that we already work very closely with the Department of Health and Social Care to make sure we hit our target of 50,000 more nurses. We always keep…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformI commend my right hon. Friend for his excellent work on the Augar panel. He is a passionate advocate for the sector. With your indulgence, Mr Deputy Speaker, I remind the House…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformAs part of our £900 million investment, we will look at how we continue to support our brilliant creative industries, but it is not the only way to support them through our higher…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s remarks and her solidarity on the situation in Ukraine. I respectfully disagree with the hon. Lady because, when we look at the overall reforms,…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The work that MK:U is doing is exactly the sort of innovation that we need, in the same way that NMITE—the New Model Institute for Technology…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPoints of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. As you know, I am making a statement to the House tomorrow.23 Feb 2022HANSARDEducation UpdateToday, I would like to set out what the Government’s ‘Living with covid-19’ strategy means for education and childcare settings. As we move towards the endemic stage of covid-19,…21 Feb 2022HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. One year ago, the Government published their White Paper titled “Skills for Jobs: Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and…21 Feb 2022HANSARDPolitical Impartiality in SchoolsLast week, the Department for Education published non-statutory guidance on schools’ legal duties on political impartiality, as set out in sections 406 and 407 of the Education…21 Feb 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryMay I begin by wishing you and the whole House a happy new year, Mr Speaker? With permission, I would like to make a statement regarding the return to all educational settings for…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI fear the hon. Lady has very little experience of operationalising anything, given the way she has attempted to misrepresent the efforts we have made to ensure that schools are…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising an important point. I remind the House that when teachers are standing at the front of their classroom, they are not required to wear…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryMasks are one of a number of mitigations. The most important mitigation is the vaccine—that is indisputable, whether it is the first two jabs or, now, the booster campaign—and…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI remind the House that it is guidance —rather than mandate—on mask wearing in communal parts as part of plan B, which we announced at the end of last year, and now on wearing…05 Jan 2022