[PDF] Top 20 Education maintenance allowances : the impact on further education

... 13. A serious potential weakness of EMAs is that students are currently restricted to two years’ suppor t. This model works well for those who enrol on advanced level programmes at 16 – the A-level and advanced GNVQ ... See full document

... Clegg (2011: 104) also questions this spurious conflation of the value of HE with social mobility even as it may raise hopes. I share the view of Zipin et al (2013a: 1-2) who cite Berlant (2011) to argue “that optimism ... See full document

... our education system has led to a situation where mistakes are regarded as unacceptable, but perhaps an acceptance that it is natural to make mistakes, and that much is learned from them, would facilitate a more ... See full document

... for further investigation of the specific reasons why such ‘micro cultures’ were successful but this would be a useful area for further research and is something which could easily be investigated within ... See full document

... One of the objectives of our econometric analysis is to find a suitable counterfactual against which the performance of merged colleges can be compared in order to estimate the effect of mergers. Another is to be able to ... See full document

... The majority of respondents (74 per cent) were based in FE colleges and 26 per cent in sixth form colleges. In terms of levels of experience, 49 per cent of respondents had over ten years of teaching in post-16 ... See full document

... of education courses is seen as a cost of the business and thus subject to the same cost-reduction pressures as any other part of the value ...The impact may depend on local circumstances, including ... See full document

... potential impact of the White Paper ...the impact of the Government’s reforms – in particular, on their potential erosion of the stable conditions needed to build effective ... See full document

... potential impact of the White Paper ...the impact of the Government’s reforms – in particular, on their potential erosion of the stable conditions needed to build effective ... See full document

... Higher Education Funding Council [HEFCE] both indirectly through partner HEIs, and directly with FECs validating their own programmes in partnership with HEIs (Parry et ...might impact on their ... See full document

... College leaders are not interested in trying to do regional or even national work. Their focus is on developing an intergenerational dynamic. They refurbished part of the college estate recently and found that the ... See full document

... to impact on teaching ...community education, and establishing flexible learning units where students can work independently using text-based and on-line materials with tutorial support as ...in ... See full document

... most education is affected by the needs of the wider ...progressive education against extrinsically worthy traditional education but, on the whole, the government’s education policy decides ... See full document

... direct impact that structure, people, technology, strategy and culture have upon the ability of an organisation, or an organisational component to work ...(1984) further discussed that in order to make ... See full document

... of Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) awarded to students in further education in academic year 2012/13, as at the end of August ...release. Further information is provided ... See full document

... of Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) awarded to students in further education in academic year 2014/15, as at the end of August ... See full document

... of Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) awarded to students in further education in academic year 2013/14, as at the end of August ... See full document

... 2010. Further detailed information on EMA applications for academic years 2004/05 to 2010/11 (similar to Table 2 of this Release) can be found in the StatsWales table on approved EMA applications by ... See full document

... 2010. Further detailed information on EMA applications for academic years 2004/05 to 2010/11 (similar to Table 2 of this Release) can be found in the StatsWales table on approved EMA applications by ... See full document

... (Education Maintenance Allowance) is a scheme providing young people who wish to continue in education after school leaving age with an incentive to earn awards through good attendance and achieving ... See full document