Sentences with phrase «education maintenance allowances»

«Undeterred by the debacles over education maintenance allowances and student loans, Policy Exchange proposes a private loan scheme that is likely to put students into debt.»

The spat was about the Conservative Party's position on Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs), a weekly cash payment for 16 to 18 - year - olds from low income families to help with the costs of staying in education.

The government will replace the education maintenance allowance (EMA) with a «more targeted» # 180 million student support scheme, the education secretary has said.

«I've been with Jeremy while we introduced the minimum wage, when we introduced the education maintenance allowance, when we introduced sure start children's centres, when we reduced child poverty, when we attacked pensioner poverty, when we gave trade unionists the right to be represented, the right not to be sacked for going on strike.

The education maintenance allowance has been scrapped and the number of 16 - 18 year olds staying on in education is down for the first time in a decade;

The education maintenance allowance?

It was also being stressed that Hughes will have the power to make policy recommendations for what should replace the abolished # 560m education maintenance allowance aimed at helping poor children into further education.

The effects of our Sure Start programme have yet to fully kick in, but we put a lot of effort into keeping teenagers off the streets with youth provision — and, in education, the education maintenance allowance.

It also follows a period of more than a week in which the Conservative Party has not announced a single new education policy, despite Labour having put forward several proposals including plans to reduce class sizes and bring back the education maintenance allowance.

Mr Corbyn has also floated the idea of looking again at pre-school education, bringing back the education maintenance allowance and providing more support for further education colleges.

Not exact matches

Public contracts, such as the educational maintenance allowance (EMA) scheme for young people continuing with education, are also expected to be on the agenda.