Higher Education and Student Financing Sub-Committee: Terms of Reference

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A decision made 9 June 2017:

Ministerial decision reference MD-C-2017-0079
Decision summary title Higher Education and Student Financing Sub-Committee: Terms of Reference
Decision summary author	Director, Corporate Policy, Chief Minister’s Department	Is the decision summary public or exempt?		Public
Report title Higher Education and Student Financing Sub-Committee: Terms of Reference
Report author or name of person giving report	Director, Corporate Policy, Chief Minister’s Department	Is the report public or exempt?		Public
Decision and reason for the decision: The Minister approved for presentation to the States as soon as possible an update on the progress of the ministerial sub-committee considering all options for providing financial support for students to access higher education. The Medium Term Financial Plan Addition 2017–2019 provided £2m of additional funding to provide additional financial support to enable more students to access higher education and committed to other higher education initiatives being investigated. A ministerial sub-committee was established by the Chief Minister, in the course of a review by the Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel into student finance, recognising that advancing on this issue required such a group to co-ordinate investigations. This sub-committee is looking at all options, their costings and advantages and disadvantages of each, including student loans. In line with the recommendations of the review of the Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel, which correctly asked for the terms of reference of this group to be published, the terms of reference are being published. An update on the progress of this group will be provided to the Assembly as soon as possible.
Resource implications: None.
Action required: The Greffier of the States to be requested to take the necessary steps to arrange for the attached report to be presented to the States Assembly as a Report for information
Signature			Position Senator Ian Gorst Chief Minister

Date signed			Effective date of the decision