Education: Exports

(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what targets she has for exports in education in each of the next three years; and if she will make a statement.


This question was answered on 17th November 2017

A target to increase the value of education exports to £30bn by 2020 was set by the previous government. The target is rightly ambitious and the Department for Education remains committed to working with the rest of government and the sector to driving progress towards achieving it.

This Government continues to support growth in UK education exports, including through the work of the team dedicated to education exports in the Department for International Trade (DIT). They have recently announced the establishment of a DIT Education Sector Advisory Board, chaired by my hon. Friend for Wyre Forest (Bill Esterson), which will support the aspirations of the sector internationally.

The Government actively promotes study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and through the British Council, which promotes the UK in over 100 countries. The UK attracts high numbers of overseas students, second only to the USA in terms of our market share, and there continues to be no limit to the number who can come here to study.

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