Committee to take evidence from Finance Wales as part of inquiry into higher education in Wales

The Assembly’s Enterprise and Learning Committee will continue to take evidence for its inquiry into the economic contribution of higher education in Wales at its next meeting.

The Committee will hear evidence from Nick Moon, the director strategy and communications at Finance Wales, the body which provides commercial funding to small and medium sized enterprises in Wales.

Members will also take evidence from Andy Klom, head of the EC office in Wales, and from the School of Medicine at Cardiff University.

The meeting will be held at 1.30pm in Committee Room 1, Senedd, on Thursday June 5.

Further information about the committee

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