Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Universities)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • strategy for post-16 education (jointly with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills)
  • universities and higher education reform
  • higher education student finance (including the Student Loans Company)
  • widening participation in higher education
  • quality of higher education and the Teaching Excellence Framework
  • international education strategy including education exports international students and technology in education (Edtech)
  • Opportunity Areas programme
  • Opportunity North East programme
  • coronavirus (COVID-19) response for universities and higher education institutions

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan

    2020 to 2021