Educational Institutions: Licensing

(asked on 30th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will confirm how many publicly-funded colleges have been (a) granted and (b) refused international licences to run privately-funded courses in each year since 2008.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 10th August 2015

The number of publicly-funded colleges that had an application for a Tier 4 sponsor licence (a) granted and (b) refused, in each year since 2008, is:

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Total

Granted

188

333

37

33

32

38

21

5

687

Refused

6

36

13

13

4

7

11

2

92

An application may be refused for various reasons. We do not collate information on the courses each sponsor offers or the reason(s) for the refusal of each application.

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