[PDF] Top 20 House of Commons Library : Briefing paper : Number 7905, 22 January 2017: Adult ESOL in England

... an ESOL strategy The report highlighted the funding reductions to the ESOL sector since 2007 and argued that waiting lists were “at an all-time high” and that “people who want to learn English find that ... See full document

... The Controlling Migration Fund includes a local services fund worth £100 million (£25 million in each of the four years from 2016-17 to 2019-20), which councils in England can bid for funding from. The prospectus ... See full document

... As regards children with statements of SEN which name schools as the appropriate placement for a child but parents decide to educate such a child at home, it remains the local authority’s duty to ensure that the child’s ... See full document

... Westminster Academy. 3 Further details were set out in the schools white paper, The Importance of Teaching, published in November 2010: 4.21 In most European countries school students are expected to pursue a ... See full document

... response were debated in the House of Lords on 18 March 2014. Responding to the debate on behalf of the Government, Lord Bates said: Let me try to deal with the point relating to school sport, as that is something ... See full document

... 1. The School System in England This briefing offers a short introduction to the types of state-funded schools in England and how they differ from each other. Schools policy is a devolved area, and ... See full document

... the number of good school places by lifting the restrictions on selection, but at the same time requiring selective schools to play a greater role in raising standards at other ... See full document

... among full-time students and 9% among part-time students. There was a further increase among full-time students in 2017-18. The funding council has attributed these increases to the introduction of loans. The ... See full document

... Agencies that specialise in temporary workers usually retain the temporary agency worker on their payroll. Therefore these companies can have payrolls over the £3million threshold despite small number of staff ... See full document

... apprenticeships funding and the levy is available in Library Briefing 3052, Apprenticeships policy in England. The budget for Advanced Learner Loans is planned to increase from a 2015-16 baseline of ... See full document

... guidance. 22 Students with an honours degree may also currently be able to access tuition fee loans for a part-time degree in engineering, technology or computer ...from 2017-18 the ELQ rules would be ... See full document

... In a Westminster Hall debate on school transport in June 2015, the Schools Minister Nick Gibb expanded on the Government position: We believe that [local authorities] are best placed to determine how resources should be ... See full document

... in January, and if they wanted to improve their grades they could re-sit them in June and again the following year, while sitting and then re-sitting their A2 ... See full document

... in January, and if they wanted to improve their grades they could re-sit them in June and again the following year, while sitting and then re-sitting their A2 ... See full document

... In its February 2016 report, Training new teachers, the National Audit Office stated that the DfE had evidence of a link between bursaries and the number of ITT applications, but that this did not extend to the ... See full document

... 2.1 Direct funding through the funding council The Secretary of State writes to HEFCE around the turn of each year to set out funding, priorities, student numbers and related matters for the following financial year. ... See full document

... funding and student support in England from 2012/13. The estimated RAB rate on new loans was put at ‘around 30%’, but subsequently increased to ‘around 35%’ 25 then to 35%-40% 26 , revised upwards again to ‘around ... See full document

... (November 2017) In its fifth annual state of the nation report, published in November 2017, the Social Mobility Commission noted that schools in deprived areas often struggle to recruit teachers and, where ... See full document

... launched from September 2018. All ITT courses include time spent teaching in at least two schools and lead to an award of qualified teacher status (QTS). All trainees, regardless of route, are required to meet a ... See full document

... the House of Commons on 14 December ...a number of concerns with the proposed reforms, including the higher debt that students would have as a result of the ... See full document