Question follow-through · 81433

Universities: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the assessment of the value for money of Government funding for universities.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
15 Oct 2025
Answer
31 Oct 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the assessment of the value for money of Government funding for universities.

  2. 15 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 31 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The government has commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies to update their 2020 research report on the impact of undergraduate degrees on lifetime earnings, and this will be published in early 2026.The 2020 research suggests that higher education (H...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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