Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 17 October 2018.
Thank you for the list of red herrings, Cabinet Secretary. I'll crack on to the practical aspect of this. I'd like to know what you're actually doing to help universities and colleges market themselves to the wider and more lucrative international student base. For example, have you asked vice-chancellors in FE colleges what practical support you can give them? For instance, sponsoring and organising their attendance at educational fairs and paying for the release of staff for them to do that in international markets such as China and Malaysia, which could be very lucrative for us, or how lending them endorsement from Welsh Government could give their marketing campaigns more impact, so that more students can be attracted to Wales. Can you please explain to me what practical measures you're currently taking to actually market our universities and colleges outside the EU, which is, actually, where the majority of the market is—not the EU?