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LABOUR “WANTS” TO SAVE EMA
According to this morning’s Daily Mirror, Labour’s new Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Tristram Hunt MP, has strongly hinted that if Labour are elected in the 2015 General Election he “wants” to Save EMA, and reverse the Coalition Government’s decision to abolish the scheme. In the interview in today’s paper, the Daily Mirror’s Political [...]
Continue reading...Government’s own child poverty adviser agrees with SAVE EMA
18 October 2012
The Government’s own child poverty and social mobility tsar has today come out and said that they should not of abolished the education maintenanceallowance (EMA). Speaking to the Guardian newspaper Alan Milburn said that he thought it was “a very bad mistake”. The rest of the Guardian article is even more interesting: Milburn will report that EMA was “generally [...]
Continue reading...GUEST POST: Jonathan Portes - The consequences of ignoring the evidence
6 July 2012
This is a guest post by the renowned economist Jonathan Portes In justifying the decision to abolish the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA), the government argued repeatedly that the decision was justified by the evidence; in particular, that EMA was ineffective in increasing educational participation among young people. For example, the Minister for Further Education, in November [...]
Continue reading...Save EMA Get Ken To Commit to Reinstate EMA in London
1 March 2012
Today Ken Livingstone, the Labour candidate for London mayor, has pledged to reinstate the education maintenance allowance in the capital if he is elected in May. Mr Livingstone has been a long standing supporter of the Save EMA campaign, personally endorsing the campaign over a year ago (as seen below): Students in sixth forms or further education colleges [...]
Continue reading...PROOF AXING EMA HAS INCREASED NUMBER OF NEETS
23 February 2012
Today’s worrying figures are further proof that how catastrophic a mistake it was by the government to scrap the educational maintenance allowance (EMA). The increase in the Q4 figures for those not in employment,education or training (NEET) is in stark contrast to the steady decline that had been underway since the introduction of the EMA. [...]
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Loading ...- LABOUR “WANTS” TO SAVE EMA
- Government’s own child poverty adviser agrees with SAVE EMA
- GUEST POST: Jonathan Portes - The consequences of ignoring the evidence
- Save EMA Get Ken To Commit to Reinstate EMA in London
- PROOF AXING EMA HAS INCREASED NUMBER OF NEETS
- TEENAGERS NEED EMA NOT JSA TO GET INTO THE WORKPLACE
- Barnardo’s Report: EMA replacement ‘failing young poor students’
- Ed Miliband to consider restoring EMA as a future election pledge
- TEENAGERS CALL FOR EMA TO BE RESTORED ON GCSE RESULTS DAY
- COULD CUTTING EMA HELP LEAD TO MORE TEENAGE RIOTS?
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- kate: my EMA got taken away from me when it costs me £5 per day to even get to college. my relationship with my mum isn't good and it's getting worse becaus...
- Save EMA: Cheers, its been updated!...
- Caroline: Not immediately apparent what NEET stands for, have googled now "not in education, employment, or training"...
- sandy: On the 17 June 2011-Peter Lauener Chief Executive issued a letter to all schools/collages which included DCCA, he stated: Every effort has been made t...
- Chris Davies: I am not old enough to recieve EMA yet, but when I am, I will consistently rely on it to get me through College and University. It is sick that we wil...
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