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Arts and Humanities: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support the arts and humanities in the higher education sector.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
14 Mar 2025
Answer
23 Mar 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support the arts and humanities in the higher education sector.

  2. 14 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The government is committed to supporting creative subjects, such as the arts and humanities, in higher education (HE).​For the 2024/25 academic year, the department has allocated around £12.9 million in high-cost subject funding from the Strategic Priori...

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