Higher Education has been promised a near ten per cent rise in Government funding over the next three years.It will support modernisation and expansion of the higher education sector, and cover pay and equality measures negotiated by the universities themselves.
It’s the first real increase in funding per student since the 1980’s. The effects will be felt immediately, with higher education institutions able to recruit an additional 45,000 students next year. 

The long-awaited urban white paper has finally surfaced - it promises a long-term strategy for action to breathe new life into towns and cities and turn them into the preferred choice as a place to live.The White Paper, ‘Our Towns and Cities: the Future’, includes a package of fiscal incentives aimed at encouraging people to invest in urban areas, and better planning guidance to put urban renaissance at the forefront of thinking on urban planning.