[PDF] Top 20 Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) statistics

... The EMA scheme was initially piloted in 15 local authority areas from 1999 and was rolled out nationally at the start of academic year 2004/05. Full-time students aged 16-18 were eligible in the former pilot areas, while ... See full document

... There was also a mixed response in Leeds about the appropriateness of EMA. Many were very positive about its introduction. They spoke of ‘a huge gap’ in funding for under-18 year olds and felt that EMA was more in line ... See full document

... Chapter 2 has already suggested that EMA has had a positive impact on retention of young people in post-16 education. The descriptive analysis in this chapter provides more detail by examining the extent of EMA ... See full document

... Parents and young people expressed concerns about the impact of the scheme on young people who were encouraged to remain in education when they might be more suited to employment or work-based training. It was ... See full document

... in education in each year and retention in education between the two ...compulsory education in summer 1999 (cohort 1) and summer 2000 (cohort 2) have been combined to improve the precision of ... See full document

... full-time education the complete sequence of choices at each of the ten time points is observed for less than half (46 per cent) of the original EMA sample (for both cohorts), as on average the rate of attrition ... See full document

... The allowance is based on parental income. The full allowance is paid to students with a parental income of under £13,000 per year; the amount tapers off until a maximum income of £30,000 is ...weekly ... See full document

... an allowance which is normally income assessed (on parental income for the previous year) and is paid directly into a young person’s bank ...the allowance is the maximum; £30 per ... See full document

... receiving education while living in a foster home or children’s home, and are in the care of the local authority, or living independently in receipt of Income Support or Contribution-Based Employment & Support ... See full document

... • Participation, retention and achievement rates in post-16 education. The impact of EMA on participation, retention and achievement rates in post-compulsory education remains a critical measure of the ... See full document

... Learning and Skills Council Evaluation of the New Criteria for Provision Associated with EMA Table 3.1: Features of New Programmes Provider A Description Offered Incentive Previously Pre[r] ... See full document

... means-tested Education Maintenance Allowance is payable only under the provisions of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 and, as such, to unwaged trainees on the Training for ... See full document

... 5.23 We think that EMA should continue until compulsory participation is introduced in 2013. After that, we propose that financial support will need to be restructured. In doing so, we would build on the reforms from the ... See full document

... Local Education Authorities (LEAs) appear to have been largely successful in publicising EMA in the short time available (Chapter 2), knowledge of its availability was not ...post-16 education immediately ... See full document

... that it would be regarded as positive only if it marked a genuine attempt to help families that were not able to fund young people to continue in post-16 education. Again, worries that some young people for whom ... See full document

... reputation of the CStat qualification is safeguarded. CPD is essential for the maintenance of standards and programmes for it appear to have two main dimensions. The first is the voluntary and/or compulsory ... See full document

... and maintenance of plant, depreciation, scholarships and fellowships, other expenses, and nonoperating ...and maintenance of plant for GASB institutions are included in other core expenses, but are ... See full document

... to statistics in a number of different subject matters – including poverty ...for Statistics has undertaken the application of the framework to education ...to education statistics in ... See full document

... It is worth considering the various learning formats available in a medical center setting in relation to bio- statistics. Medical training has to a large extent moved to an online platform, with specific goals ... See full document

... The change in the way ages were recorded for these figures was changed in the early 1980s. The result was a shift downwards in the staying-on rate for 16 year olds as the figures recorded a younger age for many pupils ... See full document