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The Government’s Replacement for EMA Will Not Work

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

This week Michael Gove announced the Government’s plans to replace the £550 million education maintenance allowance (EMA) with a £180m bursary scheme. There was a small victory for the Save EMA campaign this week as the government listened to our ‘A Deal’s A Deal’ campaign, which threatened a legal challenge, unless the government provided support [...]

We’ve won a battle in the war to Save EMA

Monday, March 28, 2011

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Today Save EMA has won our A Deals A Deal campaign and forced the Government to pay EMA to those who are currently recieving £30 a week in EMA next year. You can see James Mills from Save EMA respond straight after the decision below to the BBC. This is a BIG victory for our [...]

March for the Alternative – to Save EMA

Friday, March 25, 2011

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Join the march with hundreds of thousands of others to send a message to the coalition government that there is an alternative to the spending cuts and abolishing EMA. Save EMA has been invited to have our own section on the march and we want to get as many young people who support EMA to march together to [...]

10 Leading Economist back Save EMA

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Save EMA has an open letter in the Guardian newspaper this morning calling on the Chancellor George Osborne to reverse his decision to scrap the EMA in his budget next week. It is signed by 10 of the leading economists in the UK. This is the letter in full: We, the undersigned economists, support the Save EMA campaign [...]

LONDON CALLING: PROTEST AT LONDON CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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Students, trade unionists, local councillors and residents are uniting for a day of action this Saturday (26 February) to protests at the cuts facing London by the Conservative led government at their secret London Conference. EVENT TIME/DATES: Saturday 26 February 9.30am-2pm LOCATION: Hammersmith Town Hall The Secret London Conservative Conference is planned to launch Boris Johnson’s [...]