Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Skills, Further and Higher Education)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • T Levels
  • qualifications reviews (levels 3 and below)
  • higher technical education (levels 4 and 5)
  • apprenticeships and traineeships
  • further education providers, workforce, funding and accountability
  • Institutes of Technology
  • Local Skills Improvement Plans and Local Skills Improvement Fund
  • adult education, including, the National Skills Fund and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
  • careers education, information and guidance including the Careers and Enterprise Company
  • reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training
  • further education and higher education quality
  • higher education reform
  • Lifelong Loan Entitlement
  • student experience and widening participation in higher education
  • student finance (including the Student Loans Company)
  • international education strategy and international students
  • coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery for further education services, universities and higher education institutions

Previous holders of this role

  1. Andrea Jenkyns

    2022 to 2022