Office for Students: Public Appointments

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration she gave to appointing a representative of the National Union of Students to the board of the Office of Students; and for what reasons she decided against doing so.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 30th January 2018

Schedule 1 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 sets out the criteria for the composition of the Office for Students board. The criteria was extensively debated by Parliament during the Bill – I refer the hon. Member to the debate at Report Stage: http://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-11-21/debates/3C2C0C73-35CF-4108-B68D-44820B49059B/HigherEducationAndResearchBill.

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