Sentences with phrase «education maintenance allowance»

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.»

«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.

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.

Students in further education colleges will be particularly affected by the removal of the education maintenance allowance, which has given means - tested payments of up to # 30 per week to help teenagers stay in education.

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.