Committee to begin new inquiry in higher education in Wales
The Assembly’s Enterprise and Learning Committee will this week begin a new inquiry into the economic contribution of higher education in Wales.
Professor Mervyn Jones and Amanda Wilkinson, the Chair and Director of Higher Education Wales, will give evidence to the Committee.
Gareth Jones AM, Chair of the Committee, said: “The Committee has already carried a number of successful inquiries, and I am very confident that we will once again be able to produce a useful and robust report on the result of our findings. It will therefore be very important to make sure the scope of the inquiry is exactly right, and we will be exploring these issues with bodies like Higher Education Wales before officially launching the inquiry and carrying out detailed evidence-gathering in the new year.”
The terms of reference for the inquiry are:
To consider the nature of the strategic engagement of Higher Education Institutes with businesses in Wales and beyond and their impact on their local and regional economies
The success of HEIs in accessing funding from a range of sources
The extent to which entrepreneurial education has been embedded in Welsh HEIs
The contribution that HEIs can make to the skills agenda
The wider contributions of universities to their localities
The meeting takes place at 11am on Wednesday November 28 in Committee Room 3, Senedd, Cardiff Bay.