Higher Education: North East

(asked on 24th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps Opportunity North East will take to boost the rate of participation in higher education, degree apprenticeships and other high quality technical education options.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 1st May 2019

Opportunity North East will challenge the most selective higher education (HE) institutions across the country to do more to increase the number of young people from the region who secure places. There are already a range of programmes that offer support to young people in the North East to help them think about progression to HE, such as Futureme offered through the North East Collaborative Outreach Programme (NECOP): https://futureme.ac.uk/about. We are working in collaboration with NECOP and others to assess which of these widening participation programmes have potential for the greatest impact, and we will work with HE institutions on these to boost the rate of participation of the region’s young people.

We are working closely with Local Enterprise Partnerships in the North East and their business partners to improve careers and enterprise education and connect young people to the regional economy, and to find more ways for regional and national employers to be part of providing word-class careers and enterprise education in the region’s schools.

We will engage with North East T level providers to support their delivery planning, and we will identify if there are any particular sectors/geographic areas where the National Apprenticeship Service could do some targeted work with employers.

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