Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential risks to further and higher education in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK of the UK leaving the EU.

The Government values students, educators and researchers from outside the UK who come to learn and work in the UK, including in its devolved nations. UK universities, further education (FE) colleges and providers are home both to world-class teaching and to world-leading research, and exiting the EU will not change this. Future arrangements for migration, higher education and FE student funding, and UK students studying abroad will need to be considered as part of wider discussions about the UK’s relationship with the EU.