Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 22 March 2017.
Well, you’re aware, through the conversations that we’ve had previously here, that we’re making the funds available to HEFCW that they require in order to deliver the sort of higher education experience and investment that we want to achieve in Wales. But let me say this: I think we need to go further, sometimes, than simply funding the higher education estate and establishment in order to deliver those things. I think we need to look in a wider way to develop an industrial policy that is based partly within higher education, but not only within higher education, at increasing the skills, commercialising the research available to us, and investing in an economy that can withstand the difficulties that our economy will face in coming years.