Press release: Social mobility moving in the wrong direction
Responding to Thursday’s HEFCE report “Trends in young participation in higher education: core results for England”, Shadow Secretary of State for Universities and Skills, David Willetts said:
Press Release: Ministers must not block university aspiration
Responding to UCAS figures showing a rise in university applications, Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts said:”These figures show there is growing demand to study at university. The number of English students going to English universities is up by 15,000.
Press Release: Strong families matter for children and matter for society
Conservatives today launch the families section of the ‘Mending our Broken Society’ chapter of the Conservative Party’s draft manifesto. The section outlines plans to make Britain more family-friendly by:Reforming the tax and benefits system to help families
Taking a new approach to early intervention
Helping families to balance their lives
Press Release: Ministers should hang their heads over student finance fiasco
Responding to the damning report into the collapse of the student finance system this year, which says that ultimate accountability for the fiasco rests with ministers and that they were too distanced from operational delivery, Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts said:
Press Release: Ministers must stop treating students as second-class citizens
In response to new research on the take-up of bursaries by students, Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts said:
Speech at the Association of Colleges conference
FURTHER EDUCATION
What a great pleasure it is to be here at your annual conference once again. Visiting members of the Association of Colleges is one of the best parts of my job. Only recently:
Press Release: Abolish excessive red tape to help out-of-work young people and the launch of a Conservative Party consultation document about skills funding
David Willetts, the Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, will today commit to a big reduction in the amount of information that has to be collected by further education colleges. Currently up to 200 pieces of data have to be collected for each course done by each student, and a typical college can have 45 staff who work exclusively on collecting and entering data.
Press Release: Number of NEETs passes one million
New statistics published today reveal that the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) has passed one million, after rising by more than 120,000 in the last three months.
Press Release: Universities bailing out students due to loan delays
Responding to the BBC survey which shows that three quarters of universities have had to provide emergency funding to students due to the meltdown in the Government’s student finance system this year, Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts said:
Press Release: Reaction to the Skills Strategy announced by Lord Mandelson
Commenting on the Skills Strategy announced by Lord Mandelson today, Shadow Universities Secretary David Willetts said:
