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 (Minister for Skills))

Previous holders of this role

1. The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP

   2021 to 2022

Announcements

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• Gaps in student mental health services to be tackled
  • 20 June 2022
  • Press release
• Student loan interest rates capped
  • 11 June 2022
  • News story
• Higher and Further Education Minister speaks to HEPI annual conference
  • 09 June 2022
  • Speech
• Skills boost for local communities
  • 25 May 2022
  • Press release
• Spiking of university students to be tackled
  • 24 May 2022
  • Press release
• Government suspends engagement with the NUS over antisemitism
  • 13 May 2022
  • Press release
• Minister Donelan addresses Policy Exchange
  • 26 April 2022
  • Speech
• UK boosts support for Ukrainian research community
  • 27 March 2022
  • Press release
• Higher and Further Education Minister Michelle Donelan speech on the Augar Review
  • 24 February 2022
  • Speech
• Fairer higher education system for students and taxpayers
  • 24 February 2022
  • Press release

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