With their students unable to take A-level and GCSE exams this year, schools and colleges were asked ‘to use their professional experience to make a fair and objective judgement of the grade they believed a student would have achieved’. This meant ‘providing a full range of available evidence when they graded students – including non-exam […]
Barely a month after Boris Johnson promised an apprenticeship for any young person who wanted one, Department for Education data shows the devastating effects of the pandemic. The number of apprentice starts have already declined in recent months – between August 2019 and January this year, the number of new apprenticeships was 7.3 per cent […]
* https://education-economy-society.com/2020/04/02/theres-no-place-like-home-working-practices-after-the-crisis/ As lockdown has eased. more people have been encouraged to go back to their offices, yet a study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) indicates that between 25 per cent and 30 per cent of employees will still be working from home on any one day in 2021. Other surveys […]
With government deficits and government borrowing reaching levels not experienced since the second world war, debate grows about how it will be paid for. Stephanie Kelton argues that it does not have to be. Kelton is a leading promoter of Modern Monetary Theory. Its central argument is that because countries like the UK issue their […]
Labour market figures for March to May, published today, show official unemployment remains at 3.9% or 1.35 million. Of course, 9.4 million employees are furloughed, being paid but not actually working. A further 2.4 million of the self-employed are receiving financial support, while another 500,000 are temporarily away from their employment, so while not unemployed […]
