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Higher Education: Disadvantaged

Question for Department for Education

UIN 118007, tabled on 6 December 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what budget is for the National Collaborative Outreach Programme.

Answered on

11 December 2017

The Higher Education Council for England launched the 'National Collaborative Outreach' programme in January 2017. The programme budget was set at £120 million over two years. It has established 29 consortia to target those areas of the country where progression into higher education is both low overall and lower than expected given typical GCSE attainment rates.

One of the consortia, Future U, led by the University of Central Lancashire and involving three other universities and five further education colleges, targets Blackpool and will receive a little under £2.3 million in funding over the two years.

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