A £3.8 billion investment in skills requires a roadmap
A renewed focus on ‘skills, skills, skills’ may be key to unlocking the levelling up agenda, at least according to the Chancellor`s newly announced budget. Rishi Sunak has pledged a £3.8 billion investment in skills, a considerable sum aimed at bolstering the UK`s creaky adult education sector. ‘We are supporting people to gain the skills […]
What courses did MPs study?
What did our MPs study during their time at university? Good luck!
Should GCSEs be scrapped?
Our reporter Michael Saliba went out into London to ask people what they thought of scrapping GCSEs.
Financial experts tear up govt education cut argument
By Peter Wozniak The government’s arguments for scrapping the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) have been flatly contradicted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Its new report on the controversial measure found that although a large proportion of eligible 16 to 18 year-olds would remain in education regardless of the weekly £30 payments, this is […]
Once more, with feeling: Student protests continue
By Peter Wozniak Students will show their displeasure at cuts and tuition fees in a symbolic act of protest later today, as demonstrators head to Conservative offices in North London. Immediately after schools close, the demonstrators will congregate at Tally Ho Corner in Finchley, where they will literally rip the shirts from their backs and […]
Cable launches apprenticeships pledge
By politics.co.uk staff The government will fund an extra 75,000 apprenticeship places by 2015, Vince Cable will announce in a speech later today. The business secretary will also announce a rail engineering academy and the replacement of the Train to Gain programme with one focused specifically on small- and medium-sized business. Mr Cable will link […]
Govt-funded internships ‘could save state money’
By politics.co.uk staff The government could save money by paying employers to take on disadvantaged young people as interns, a thinktank has claimed. Demos argued in a report out today that employers could be incentivised to take on those who are not in employment, education or training for internships through payment from the state. Doing […]
Straight-A students ‘will miss out on uni places’
By politics.co.uk staff Around 3,500 A-level students with straight-As will not get into university this year, higher education minister David Willetts has warned. He said many top students’ failure to apply to courses with lower entry requirements meant some of Britain’s best-qualified students would miss out this year. “That’s their decision. They can choose how […]
One in four teens ‘drifting’
By politics.co.uk staff Many more young people aged 16 to 18 are not in education, employment of training than previously thought, the Audit Commission has claimed. Its report on ‘Neets’ suggests one in four could be in this situation, dramatically more than the ten per cent average estimated by the government’s annual ‘snapshot’ survey during […]
Video: Cameron on ‘national civil service’
David Cameron explains his proposal for a national citizen service for all 16-year-olds:
