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Alan Brown Excerpts
Monday 25th June 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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Our national funding formula is a much fairer way of allocating funding, and it also supports small rural schools, particularly in areas such as West Oxfordshire, by providing a lump sum of £110,000 for every school and by targeting funding to small and remote schools through the sparsity factor. That provides up to an additional £65,000 for small rural secondary schools and £25,000 for primaries.

Alan Brown Portrait Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)
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T8. The Centre for Global Higher Education has identified that EU academics fill gaps in subjects such as science, technology, engineering and maths where there are insufficient numbers of UK-qualified academics. With Brexit fast approaching, how are the Government going to maintain staffing levels, let alone magically increase the number of UK-qualified academics?

Sam Gyimah Portrait The Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation (Mr Sam Gyimah)
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As part of the EU negotiations, we are mindful of the fact that we want academics here to work with academics from abroad. The Prime Minister said in her most recent science speech that roughly 50% of researchers in the UK are from the EU—we intend that to remain the same post Brexit.