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
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Andrea Jenkyns
2022 to 2022