Question follow-through · 26979

Higher Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to protect the financial viability of English universities, in the context of falling numbers of international students applying for Higher Education in England.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 28 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 6 Feb 2025
Answer: 18 Feb 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to protect the financial viability of English universities, in the context of falling numbers of international students applying for Higher Education in England.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
The department acknowledges the challenging financial environment faced by the higher education (HE) sector. The Office for Students' (OfS) latest report on the HE sector's financial health, which was published in November, stated that the sector's financ...

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