Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Higher and Further Education)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

• strategy for post-16 education
• higher technical education (Levels 4 and 5)
• further education funding and accountability
• Lifelong Learning Entitlement
• Institutes of Technology and National Colleges
• universities and higher education reform
• higher education quality
• student finance (including the Student Loans Company
• coronavirus (COVID-19) response for universities, higher education institutions and further education services (jointly with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Higher and Further Education)