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Higher Education White Paper

Successive Governments have never given a guarantee that every institution will carry on. However, it is unlikely that the changes we have launched today will of themselves make any institution unviable—I do not know that, but it is unlikely. Of course, it is also clear that there would be a commitment that any student should be able to complete their studies. On the hon. Lady's first point, I very much hope that it will be possible for institutions that have a clear focus on higher education to take the title ““university”” when they were previously prevented from doing so because they had fewer than 4,000 students. We have said that that should be reviewed, because some excellent higher education institutions would like to take the name ““university””. I am sure that any such proposal will be very carefully considered.