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Higher Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the financial sustainability of the higher education funding model.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 14 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 17 Jul 2025
Answer: 21 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the financial sustainability of the higher education funding model.
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
Higher education (HE) providers are independent from government and as such are responsible for making the financial decisions that support their long-term sustainability.To support providers in stabilising their finances, the Office for Students (OfS) co...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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