Gordon Marsden – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gordon Marsden on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the value of the higher education sector to the economy.
Joseph Johnson
Higher education is an important source of productivity growth. It equips individuals with the skills and abilities they need to succeed in the workforce, and helps drive innovation by strengthening the economy’s knowledge base, as well as enriching our cultural and intellectual life. The BIS research paper The relationship between graduates and economic growth across countries (2013) provides an estimate of the sector’s contribution, and is available online at:
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