Sentences with phrase «education maintenance»

«In Hull, Liberal Democrat - controlled Hull, any student in receipt of Education Maintenance Allowance also gets a travel grant to cope with the full cost.

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.

• Kinship Care Alliance submission to the Department for Education on arrangements following abolition of Education Maintenance Alliance, May 2011

The government's website added:» # 70m of this will be new money from the Treasury and around # 80m will be from unspent Department for Education maintenance budgets.»

We deeply regret the Government's decision to abolish Education Maintenance Allowance.

Scrapped Education Maintenance Allowance grants would be reinstated.

The Scrapped Education Maintenance grants could be reinstated which previously saw pupils receive means - tested payments of up to # 30 per week to encourage 16 to 18 - year - olds to stay in education.

This may explain their plans on Education Maintenance Allowance, security of tenure for council houses, housing benefit, time - limited benefits and their opposition to our objective of having half of 18 - to -30-year-olds in higher education.

There are no plans to restore Education Maintenance Allowance funding to support young people.

«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.»

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.

Luciana Berger: Labour's education maintenance allowance helped thousands of students to meet the costs of further education but this Government have scrapped EMA, abandoning young people who are desperate to fulfil their potential.

A sharp drop in student numbers suggests students are struggling to cope without the Education Maintenance Allowance, [EMA], a new report suggests.

«As they come for the education maintenance allowance, as they seek to raise interest rates on our loans and as they peddle lies about fairness we will expose their betrayal.

And we continued to support young people in their passage to adulthood: with Youth Inclusion Programmes for young teenagers most at risk of offending and the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) to give older teenagers the option to stay in full time education.

The Education Maintenance Allowance needs to be restored to its full value.

We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 percent to give an Education Maintenance Allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.

The first serious political difficulty for the current government rose from the student mobilisation against rising tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance.

University tuition fees have been trebled, the education maintenance allowance (EMA) scrapped, youth centres shut down and funding cut to all manner of different services for young people.

The Labour candidate's promises to young Londoners includes a commitment to restore the education maintenance allowance in the capital, providing safe places to people threatened by gangs and a London apprenticeship offer.

I would say: what about 16 to 18 year - olds who lost their education maintenance allowance?

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

«With these cuts, alongside the axing of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) and the astronomical cost of university tuition fees, the Government is attacking student life chances, social mobility and economic prospects.

«To prevent us descending into a two - tier education system we need to continue to campaign for the full restoration of the Education Maintenance Allowance and the eradication of higher education tuition fees.

At a time when youth unemployment is at 20 %, slashing the Education Maintenance Allowance and tripling university fees, risks alienating a generation of young people and losing their talent at society's longer term cost.

«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.

Education maintenance allowance has been reformed by this Government and as a result of those reforms we have seen --[Hon. Members: «Scrapped!»]

Maintaining child benefit for standard rate taxpayers and abolishing the education maintenance allowance also appeared to undermine efforts to keep children in school.

Education maintenance allowance has been replaced by a form of support for 16, 17 and 18 - year - olds that is more effectively targeted and has seen them achieve even better.

Education maintenance allowance was not targetted.

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;

We will hold them to account for the decisions they have taken, from raising VAT to scrapping the Future Jobs Fund and education maintenance allowances.

«A test of the Government's reforms will be in two years» time, when we see the impact of their slashing the Education Maintenance Allowance.

The education maintenance allowance?

«To prevent us descending into a situation whereby it is only those with money who can continue in education, we need to keep calling for the full restoration of the Education Maintenance Allowance and the eradication of higher education tuition fees.

The Education Maintenance Allowance was introduced by Labour to help 16 - 19 year old students with # 30 a week towards costs of staying in education.

He did... he promptly axed the Education Maintenance Allowance.

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.

Scrapping the Education Maintenance Allowance.

«No amount of effort to redefine the meaning of «poverty» will make up for the services that the Coalition Government has destroyed — closure of libraries; limits on access to free school meals; all but abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance; tuition fees up; huge reduction in the number of Sure Start centres; cuts to funding for local authority support services.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Reductions in education funding have led to cuts in provision such as breakfast and after school clubs, music lessons, SEN support and the Education Maintenance Allowance which helped students stay on in education.

The Labour Party has pledged to reinstate the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) if it is elected into power at the next general election.

Labour's education reforms include a pledge to increase in funding, free adult education and the return of the Education Maintenance Allowance for 16 to 19 year - olds.

In addition to this, they say that they will reinstate the Education Maintenance Grant to ensure that those from the poorest backgrounds are not blocked from attending university.

Corbyn also re-affirmed the commitment made by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner to bringing back the education maintenance allowance, and said his «national education service» reforms would be funded with a tax rise.

«We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 per cent to give an education maintenance allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.»

The National Education Service is Labour's umbrella term for a raft of pledged reforms, including increases in schools funding, free adult education and the return of the Education Maintenance Allowance for 16 to 19 year - olds.

But the removal of Reading Recovery and Literacy, Numeracy and Technology tutors, ending the funding of VCAL and scrapping the Education Maintenance Allowance has hit the most disadvantaged students in government schools.

«Ministers have slashed funding for Sure Start, cut school budgets by # 2.7 bn, imposed real - terms cuts on teachers» pay and abolished the education maintenance allowance which has made it harder for those from disadvantaged backgrounds to stay in education,» she said.