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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 28 June 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Willetts.

Higher Education White Paper

Statement on the Higher Education White Paper (Cm 8122).

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
530 c769-85 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Deposited Paper DEP2011-1072
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 530 c773 (Link to this contribution) Order. I was being gentle about it. This is the hon. Gentleman's last sentence, and it needs to be a...
Gareth Thomas | 530 c773 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely close to it, Mr Speaker. Is it not true that the Minister did not need to axe Aimhigh...
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Speaker | 530 c774 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is extensive interest in this statement, and I am keen to accommodate that interest, bu...
Mark Field | 530 c774 (Link to this contribution) I have spent the past six years on the advisory board of the London School of Commerce, a private hi...
Gareth Thomas | 530 c773 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr Speaker. The Government may think that lower quality, poorer standards and a race ...
Lord Willetts | 530 c773-4 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the shadow Minister that I am informed that Hattie Jacques was not even in ““Carry On...
Lord Willetts | 530 c774 (Link to this contribution) OFFA is considering proposals from universities to improve access to their institutions, which is wh...
Simon Hughes | 530 c774-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the White Paper and, particularly, the additional money announced for those dental and med...
Lord Willetts | 530 c774 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We believe that a more diverse sector with a greater range of in...
Lord Willetts | 530 c775 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the right hon. Gentleman for his very constructive engagement in this very importan...
Lord Blunkett | 530 c775 (Link to this contribution) In responding, my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow West (Mr Thomas) referred to the assessment of t...
James Clappison | 530 c775 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what my right hon. Friend has said today on the Floor of the House and, especially, what h...
Lord Willetts | 530 c775 (Link to this contribution) In that respect, I hope that we will be able to maintain a cross-party consensus, because the previo...
David Lammy | 530 c775-6 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to studying the White Paper in detail. It is surprising, however, that in his announc...
Lord Willetts | 530 c776 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the expertise of the right hon. Gentleman, who was previously a higher education Ministe...
James Morris | 530 c776 (Link to this contribution) I regularly meet the three principals of the FE colleges that serve my constituency, who are keen to...
Lord Willetts | 530 c776 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend; he is right. This is one of the main ways in which we can im...
Frank Dobson | 530 c776 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not recognise that in marketising the whole system of higher education he is creat...
Lord Willetts | 530 c769-71 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the higher education White Paper, ...
Gareth Thomas | 530 c771-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for advance sight of his statement. Is it not true that as higher educ...
Speaker | 530 c773 (Link to this contribution) Order. I should explain to the shadow Minister that his response should be no longer than half the e...
Lord Willetts | 530 c779 (Link to this contribution) We are not Americanising our higher education system. There are important differences between the sy...
Julian Lewis | 530 c779 (Link to this contribution) When all sorts of universities were obliged to charge the same, a student from a modest economic bac...
Lord Willetts | 530 c779-80 (Link to this contribution) I will happily share with the House the arithmetic on which we have made an estimate, although nobod...
Robert Halfon | 530 c780 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that Anglia Ruskin university is opening a university campus in Harlow...
Lord Willetts | 530 c779 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about how much they will be paying, but we should remember that no student will...
Gavin Shuker | 530 c779 (Link to this contribution) I noted the Minister's answer to the question about the funding gap, but I have to say that I found ...
Iain Stewart | 530 c780 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the plans to increase the role of business in higher education. Four out of five...
Lord Willetts | 530 c780 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady and the Labour party must decide whether they are to approach the future of higher edu...
Helen Jones | 530 c780 (Link to this contribution) Will not the real effect of the Minister's White Paper be to allow private institutions to cherry-pi...
Lord Willetts | 530 c780 (Link to this contribution) I do not fully understand my hon. Friend's proposition, but we are committed to access for students ...
Lord Willetts | 530 c780-1 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend's strong commitment to the Open university and his close involvement...
Diana Johnson | 530 c781 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has talked a lot about what will happen to the top university institutions and those th...
Lord Willetts | 530 c781 (Link to this contribution) The future is one in which, year after year, we try to increase the flexibility in the system. We ha...
Mary MacLeod | 530 c781 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's statement. Does my right hon. Friend envisage an enhanced role for colleges such a...
Lord Willetts | 530 c781 (Link to this contribution) West Thames college can put in a bid to HEFCE under the 20,000 places scheme that we have launched t...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 530 c781 (Link to this contribution) I very much trust that as a result of the Minister's White Paper, excellent colleges such as Newman ...
Lord Willetts | 530 c781 (Link to this contribution) Successive Governments have never given a guarantee that every institution will carry on. However, i...
Lord Willetts | 530 c782 (Link to this contribution) I hope that it will be possible for Professor Sir Tim Wilson to report to us by the autumn on his ob...
Julian Smith | 530 c782 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the furthering of links between business and universities. Which developing and emerging e...
Lord Walney | 530 c782 (Link to this contribution) I have met the Minister to discuss the difficulties faced by the university of Cumbria in recent yea...
Lord Willetts | 530 c776 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, and I respect his expertise as a former FE college lecturer....
Nicholas Dakin | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State guarantee that these proposals do not allow charitable private schools t...
Lord Willetts | 530 c776 (Link to this contribution) I have to break this gently to the right hon. Gentleman: Government Members believe in choice and in...
David Evennett | 530 c776 (Link to this contribution) I welcome many aspects of my right hon. Friend's White Paper, particularly the better information ab...
Duncan Hames | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) Fourteen years ago, the Dearing report identified employers, alongside students and the state, as st...
Lord Willetts | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) There certainly is growing international competition for students. Higher education is becoming more...
Jonathan Ashworth | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that higher education should be one of our greatest exports? Over many years...
Lord Willetts | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) Again, my hon. Friend has a long-standing commitment to this. He describes exactly the type of innov...
Rob Wilson | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the broad thrust of my right hon. Friend's statement, particularly the increased competiti...
Lord Willetts | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) That is not the purpose of these reforms.
Barry Sheerman | 530 c777-8 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that this is the day of the launch of the higher education commission. All of us ...
Lord Willetts | 530 c778 (Link to this contribution) There is a real dilemma here and I respect the hon. Gentleman's raising it in the House. I believe t...
Jason McCartney | 530 c778 (Link to this contribution) I had an enjoyable night last Monday at the students' union awards at Huddersfield university, where...
Lord Willetts | 530 c778 (Link to this contribution) There is a lot of important information that we think prospective students should have, ranging from...
Lord Willetts | 530 c777 (Link to this contribution) This goes back to an earlier question. Let me make it absolutely clear that one of the proposals in ...
Paul Blomfield | 530 c779 (Link to this contribution) There is concern on both sides of the House about the expansion of the for-profit sector in higher e...
Lord Willetts | 530 c778 (Link to this contribution) There is no such funding gap, we are not going too far and too fast, and there is no threat to quali...
Bill Esterson | 530 c778 (Link to this contribution) According to the House of Commons Library, there is a funding gap of between £600 million and £1 bil...
Lord Willetts | 530 c778-9 (Link to this contribution) This is about the importance of information, advice and guidance in our schools and colleges. Again,...
Clive Efford | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has made much of wanting to introduce equality into the system, but one thing that infu...
Lord Willetts | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) No, they will not be able to do that.
Lord Willetts | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) If Labour is going to take this approach to private provision, it is making a serious mistake. We ar...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) I want to ask about the Minister's private providers. My right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn an...
Lord Willetts | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) Universities will have to provide far more information about that than they have in the past. We hop...
Mark Pawsey | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) When the previous Government increased fees, students started to ask about the value for money provi...
Speaker | 530 c782 (Link to this contribution) Order. As I said to the Justice Secretary the other day, Ministers at the Dispatch Box should not op...
Lord Willetts | 530 c782 (Link to this contribution) We on the Government Benches believe in openness, flexibility and innovation, but every time we prop...
Lord Willetts | 530 c782 (Link to this contribution) We invited the outgoing president of the National Union of Students and a vice-chancellor to work to...
Lord Evans of Rainow | 530 c782 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the White Paper, particularly the provisions for part-time students. Will my rig...
Lord Willetts | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. That is exactly the kind of flexibility that we wish to see in the new ...
Robin Walker | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. Like many Government Members, I particularly welcome the...
Philip Hollobone | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister believe that these proposals, together with the Government's previously announced ...
Lord Willetts | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of sympathy with my hon. Friend's points, which are important. The current system is ex...
Christopher Pincher | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend work with the Secretary of State for Education to introduce a system of po...
Lord Willetts | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) In a letter that the Secretary of State and I have sent to HEFCE today we make clear our continuing ...
Elizabeth Truss | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) Although I support relaxing the Stalinist quotas that we have had in our universities, I am concerne...
Lord Willetts | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) There are some barriers here. One of our frustrations—I am sure that we have all come across example...
Neil Carmichael | 530 c784 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this excellent statement because it paves the way for more quality and better choice. How ...
Lord Willetts | 530 c783 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that scheme at the university of Worcester, which was very imaginative. My hon. Friend...
Marcus Jones | 530 c785 (Link to this contribution) Will the White Paper strengthen the link between universities and employers, so that we can get even...
Lord Willetts | 530 c785 (Link to this contribution) The White Paper is absolutely committed to that, and there are many different ways of doing it. For ...
Adrian Bailey | 530 c774 (Link to this contribution) This White Paper was originally scheduled for January. I understand that one reason for the six-mont...
Lord Willetts | 530 c775 (Link to this contribution) The changes in the visa regime were very carefully worked out by the Home Office and BIS working tog...
Andrew Percy | 530 c778 (Link to this contribution) When I voted against the rise in tuition fees, I did so because of the impact I thought it would hav...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Degrees Admissions Disadvantaged Business Dentistry Finance Fees and charges Graduates Further education Grants Higher education Public consultation Loans Medicine Universities Regulation Repayments Students Sponsorship Sandwich courses
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