David Willetts

David Willetts MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Universities and Skills, has welcomed the new report from the CBI on higher education. He said:

Previously unseen documents released under Freedom of Information show the Government’s key role in the decisions which led to this year’s student loans chaos. Tens of thousands of students will begin university tomorrow without loans and grants after administrative chaos led to severely delayed applications, loss of identification documents and thousands of unanswered helpline phone calls.

In response to ‘Learning Through Life’, a new report from NIACE on lifelong learning, the Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts said:

Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts, has today written to Lord Mandelson to seek assurances about reports that the student loans system is experiencing serious problems with processing applications.