Question follow-through · 102443

Overseas Students: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review the dependence of universities on income from foreign students.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
2 Jan 2026
Target answer date
6 Jan 2026
Answer
12 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review the dependence of universities on income from foreign students.

  2. 6 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The Office for Students (OfS), as regulator of the English higher education (HE) sector, is working with the University of Essex to ensure plans are in place to protect students and maintain learning continuity following the Southend campus closure. There...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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