3. Urgent Question: Part-time Postgraduate Study

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:30 pm on 24 May 2016.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 2:30, 24 May 2016

Could I thank the Member for his question this afternoon also? HEFCW’s remit letter for 2016-17, which was written by the previous Minister, did task the council with developing a strategy for HE in Wales, which, amongst other things, did identify in which ways the councils and providers would work together to find innovative ways to encourage part-time study, and to create opportunities to extend part-time provision. The Member will be more than aware that the future of all these issues—of funding of both undergraduate and postgraduate, full-time and part-time—is the subject of the review of the higher education funding and student finance arrangements in Wales, chaired by Sir Ian Diamond. That is due to report later on this summer. I do not want to pre-empt the hard and serious work that has gone on by members of the Diamond review, and so I look forward to reading—[Interruption.]—and so I look forward to reading the report, when it is published, and considering its recommendations with Cabinet colleagues.