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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...GUEST POST: Jonathan Portes - The consequences of ignoring the evidence
Friday, July 6, 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...TEENAGERS NEED EMA NOT JSA TO GET INTO THE WORKPLACE
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Save EMA campaign in responding to the government’s new plans to allow firms and charities to bid for a payment-by-results scheme to try to get “Neet” teenagers into work or training, has pointed out that this money is similar to the amount that should have been spent on EMA. The government’s plan on 16 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT SLAMS GOVT “RUSHED” DECISION ON EMA
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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 [...]
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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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