Higher Education Reform

Tim Farron Excerpts
Monday 17th July 2023

(9 months, 4 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gillian Keegan Portrait Gillian Keegan
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My hon. Friend knows that we have already looked at that in careful detail. It is kept under review, and we recently made changes to the taught course route.

Tim Farron Portrait Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) (LD)
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Of course students deserve high-quality education at university. They also deserve to be cared for during what is, for most of them, their first time away from home. Does the Secretary of State agree with me, and with the families of young people who have tragically taken their own lives at university, that higher education institutions should do more to look out for and protect those students, including by having a statutory duty of care?