
Minister of State, Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education
Bill Rammell MP
Responsible for:
- Further Education strategy and implementation
- Skills strategy and implementation, including Leitch delivery
- The Learning and Skills Council
- Standards and performance in further education and skills, including the Quality Improvement Agency
- Higher Education strategy and implementation, including widening participation and part-time learners
- Employer Engagement in Higher Education
- The Higher Education Funding Council for England
- Student finance policy
- Liaison between further and higher education
- International relations and the Joint International Unit, including the Prime Minister’s initiative on overseas HE students
- Liaison with the Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Liaison with the Department for Work and Pensions
