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...Thursday, October 18, 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...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...Thursday, March 1, 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...Thursday, February 23, 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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