To provide a forum for all parliamentarians to develop greater understanding of the range of issues affecting students in further and higher education. To ensure that student views and experiences are heard in Parliament, facilitate interaction between students and MPs and Peers, and ensure education policy takes account of student views.
1. 16 to 19 funding: advanced maths premium
21/01/2021 - Education and Skills Funding Agency
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Found: funding
twice in one year).
1.
Increase in students studying maths
Baseline
Current
Year
2. Standardisation of grades in general qualifications in summer 2020: outliers
18/12/2020 - Ofqual
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Found:
Identifying students for whom the standardisation
model would be unreliable
3. Student support for higher education in Wales 2021
25/11/2021 - Student Loans Company
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Found: Fee Loans available to full-time undergraduate students - Academic years 2015/16 to 2020/21Table 1B: Student
4. Student Support for Higher Education in Wales 2020
26/11/2020 - Student Loans Company
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Found: Fee Loans available to Full Time Undergraduate students - Academic Years 2013/14 to 2019/20Table 1B: Student
5. Written evidence submitted by Birkbeck Students' Union (HEFSB24)
23/09/2021 - Bill Documents
Found: Speech) Bill
Written Evidence Submitted by Birkbeck Students’ Union (HEFSB24)
re: the Higher Education (Freedom
1. Support for University Students: Covid-19
03/02/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: (Paul Blomfield) is an assiduous campaigner for students and has spoken to me many times on the topic. - Speech Link
2. University Students: Compensation for Lost Teaching and Rent
15/04/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: university students and his Department’s plans to provide financial compensation to university students for - Speech Link
2: just how difficult the past year has been for students. Since the arrival of new and highly transmissible - Speech Link
3. Tuition Fees
16/11/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: 2019–21, The impact of Covid-19 on university students, HC 527; Third Special Report of the Petitions - Speech Link
2: universities to reimburse students’ tuition fees during strike action”, to “Reimburse all students of this year’s - Speech Link
4. Support for University Students: Covid-19
08/02/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: (Paul Blomfield) is an assiduous campaigner for students and has spoken to me many times on the topic. - Speech Link
2: to prevent students from getting into hardship. We have worked with the Office for Students to allow flexibility - Speech Link
3: flexibility in how they distribute the funding to their students in a way that is best prioritised to meet the - Speech Link
5. Students’ Return to Universities
29/09/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: like to make a statement regarding the return of students to universities. Throughout this pandemic, our - Speech Link
asked by: Lord Blencathra
01/08/2019
... what it is. 2. Coronavirus: Students
asked by: Apsana Begum
09/11/2020
... what assessment he has made of the potential effect of not allowing university students to return home for Christmas on preventing the transmission of covid-19. 3. Nurses: Students
asked by: Clive Betts
08/12/2020
... what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the Royal College of Nursing’s campaign for Government to provide a life assurance scheme to English student nurses working on the front line during the second wave of the covid-19 outbreak. 4. Students: Loans
asked by: Stella Creasy
25/11/2020
... what recent assessment he has made of the equity of charging interest on Plan 1 student loans during maternity leave. 5. Students: Coronavirus
asked by: Esther McVey
02/12/2020
... what discussions his Department has had with representatives of university students on their needs in the context of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on university education.
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Choice at the End of Life , Debt and Personal Finance , Electoral Reform , International Students , Kashmir , University
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Afrikan Reparations , Choice at the End of Life , Citizens Rights , Climate Change , Compassionate Politics , Coronavirus , Dark Skies , Deliberative Democracy , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Drones and Modern Conflict , Drug Policy Reform , Electoral Campaigning Transparency , Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency , Future Generations , Gaps in Support , Green New Deal , Land Value Capture , Limits to Growth , Mindfulness , Ocean Conservation , Refugees , Renewable and Sustainable Energy , Sixth Form Education , South East , Southern Rail , Trade Justice , United Nations Women , Votes at 16 , West Papua , Women in Parliament
22q11 Syndrome , Albania , American Football , Antisemitism , Basketball , British Jews , Climate Change , Conservation, Places and People , Côte d’Ivoire , Drones and Modern Conflict , Electoral Reform , Electric Vehicles , Esports , Greenland , Hydrogen , International Conservation , Internet, Communications and Technology , Investment Fraud , Kosovo , Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness , Montenegro , Music , Net Zero , North Macedonia , Northern Culture , Pacific Islands , Park Homes , Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed Conditions , Renters and Rental Reform , Running , Small Island Developing States , Social Enterprise , Sustainable Finance , Sustainable Resource , Sweden , Uzbekistan , Video Games and Esports , West Papua , Western Sahara
Artificial Intelligence , Education Technology , International Students , Longevity , New and Advanced Technologies , Space
Childhood Trauma , Climate Change , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Eating Disorders , Electoral Reform , Extreme Poverty , Future Generations , Future of Retail , Green New Deal , Mental Health , Swimming , Tibet
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , BBC , Carbon Monoxide , Channel 4 , Cricket , East Coast Main Line , Fairtrade , Football Supporters , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Homelessness , Hospitality and Tourism , ITV , Kashmir , Knife Crime and Violence Reduction , Kurdistan Region in Iraq , Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) , Northern Culture , Northern Powerhouse , Pharmacy , Rail in the North , Rowing , Rugby League , Sixth Form Education , State Pension Inequality for Women , Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention , Trailer and Towing Safety , Transport Across the North , Ukraine , University , Waterways , Woods and Trees , Working at Height , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Contact Details
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Paul Blomfield MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 7142.
Email: paul.blomfield.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Taidgh Pledger, National Union of Students, NUS Services Ltd, Ian King House, Snape Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2NS . Tel: 07858 518 535
Email: info@appg-students.org.uk
Secretariat:
National Union of Students acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.nus.org.uk/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
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National Union of Students
Secretariat From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
£4,501
11 Jul 2018
National Union of Students
Secretariat From : 11/07/2018 To : 10/07/2019
£4,501
11 Jul 2017
National Union of Students
Secretariat From : 11/07/2017 To : 10/07/2018
£4,501
11 Jul 2016
National Union of Students
Secretariat From : 11/07/2016 To : 11/07/2017
£4,501
1 Jan 2015
National Union of Students
Secretariat From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£4,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Students APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Basketball , Broadband and Digital Communication , Business in a Pandemic (Covid) World , Dairy , District Councils , Housing and Planning , Housing and Social Mobility , Independent Education , Internet, Communications and Technology , Markets , Mining and Quarrying , Small and Micro Business , Social Mobility , Swimming , T Levels
Nicky Morgan
Vice-Chair
Joined: 5th November 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Ben Howlett
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Bath
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Baroness Sharp of Guildford
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Retired on 31 July 2016
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 21st July 2016