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TEENAGERS CALL FOR EMA TO BE RESTORED ON GCSE RESULTS DAY

Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Government risk making today’s GCSE winners next years NEETs by scrapping EMA. On the day hundreds of thousands of the poorest teenagers receive their GCSE’s results they will also be uncertain of their future now the scheme has been scrapped. As 90% of pupils on Free School Meals go on to receive EMA, the [...]

SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT SLAMS GOVT “RUSHED” DECISION ON EMA

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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The Education Select Committee’s report out today (covered by BBC here) responding to the Government’s abolition of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) has poured criticism on the Government’s “rushed” actions in ending the scheme and also rubbished the argument’s put forward by the government for scrapping the scheme. It goes further recommending that instead of abolishing [...]

EMA REPLACEMENT COULD BREACH EQUALITY LAW ACCORDING TO GOVERNMENT’S OWN REPORT

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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According to the Government’s own Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) into the EMA Replacement Scheme by the Department for Education, the Save EMA campaign has discovered that Michael Gove has u-turned yet again on this policy due to legal action, this time posed by the Equality Act. One of the main argument made by the Government [...]

OECD CALLS ON GOVE TO SAVE EMA

Friday, April 8, 2011

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International criticism on the government’s plans to scrap the education maintenance allowance (EMA), has been levied at the government by the one of the most influential international economic institutions. According to a report published yesterday called “Going for Growth”, the influential OECD calls on the UK government to reinstate EMA as part of a range [...]

SAVE EMA GET 2 U-TURNS IN A WEEK

Friday, April 1, 2011

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On Tuesday the Save EMA campaign managed to get the Government to U-turn on EMA and now last night it seems we have got The Mayor of London to change his tune too. In Last night’s episode of BBC Question Time, Mayor of London, Boris Johnson said on EMA: “I am concerned it will have [...]