Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Higher and Further Education)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • strategy for post-16 education
  • higher technical education (levels 4 and 5)
  • further education funding and accountability
  • lifelong learning entitlement
  • Institutes of Technology and National Colleges
  • universities and higher education reform
  • higher education quality
  • student finance (including the Student Loans Company)
  • coronavirus (COVID-19) response for universities, higher education institutions and further education services (jointly with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Skills))

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan

    2021 to 2022