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Written question asked by Alyn Smith (Scottish National Party) on Friday, 12 April 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 17 April 2024 (named day). It was answered by Luke Hall (Conservative) on Thursday, 18 April 2024 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Education: Exports

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made in implementing the objectives of the International Education Strategy to increase the (a) value of education exports and (b) number of international higher education students studying in the UK.

Answer

The International Education Strategy (IES) is a UK wide strategy which commits to growing the value of education exports. An update to the department’s IES was published on 26 May 2023. This is the third annual progress update to the original 2019 IES. A link to the 2023 update can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-education-strategy-2023-update.

The UK has met the IES international student ambition of 600 thousand per year by 2030 for two years running in both 2020/21 and 2021/22. The department is on track and will continue working towards the IES education export ambition of £35 billion per year by 2030 with £27.9 billion revenue in 2021. Data used to track progress against these two ambitions is published annually.

As the International Education Champion, Professor Sir Steve Smith continues to promote UK education export growth and supports ministers to engage in strategic discussions on progress on implementing the strategy with the education sector.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
21440
Session
2023-24
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Education Exports Overseas students
Link
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