Million Plus

Modern universities make up over half of the UK’s higher education sector, educating over a million students a year and make a huge contribution to their regional economies as anchor institutions, generating £17bn in expenditure-related gross value add (GVA) as a result of their economic activity. These institutions are also drivers of social mobility and an important cog in the Government’s levelling up agenda.

Although it is being delivered amidst a difficult economic environment, the Government should reaffirm or implement five proposals in the Autumn Statement to support our world-leading universities and boost the skills agenda.

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