House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 8389, 19 September 2018: Returns to a degree

This paper replaces Entrants to higher education and HE in England from 2012: Student numbers which looked in detail at policy around student number control and focussed on

Parents' right to educate their child at home applies equally where a child has special educational needs (SEN), but the education provided must be “suitable to the child’s

Additional elements of funding are then allocated outside of the formula, including, for example, funding for high needs students, and for some student support schemes (e.g. Dance

This includes all formula-led funding, transitional protection funding, high needs funding, and those elements of student support funding provided through allocations to

The report stated that average teacher salaries “remain considerably lower for teaching than other graduate professions.” It added that trends in teacher recruitment and

In evidence to the Education Committee in October 2016, the FE Commissioner stated that he expected between 50 and 80 mergers in total to result from the area review process. 40

In October 2017, the Government announced a review of higher level technical education, which it stated is intended to look at “how technical qualifications at this level can

In September 2012 the Government made significant changes to the student finance system which included: allowing universities to raise their fees to £9,000 per year, raising