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Chair of education committee also explores ways to “rocket-boost” degree apprenticeships
An influential MP has called for tuition fee grants to help boost the number of part time students in higher education, which has “fallen into disrepair”.
During a Westminster Hall debate on adult education on 15 April, Conservative MP and chair of the House of Commons education committee Robert Halfon said that part-time higher education “needs to be nursed back to health” as it has “fallen into disrepair”.