Despite conflicting medical evidence and signs of a Covid ‘second spike’ – Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are desperate to send all children back to school this week. But except for photo opportunities, the Tories are not interested in schools or learning – education had been given little attention since Johnson became PM and […]
Remember the NEETs? An acronym created by the Blair government and then used across Europe. Latest figures for young people Not in Education, Employment or Training for the first six months of this year, show 13% (more than 1 in 8) of all 18- 24’s in this category. Other research shows 75% being NEET for […]
As a result of wide scale opposition – from Tory MPs to the National Education Union; not to mention the spontaneous protests by young people – the Westminster government, fearing another fiasco when GCSE results are published on Thursday, has followed its more astute Scottish counterparts and will allow A-level grades to be based on […]
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 […]
