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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 07250, 8 March 2017: University Technical Colleges
... In December 2015, the Government confirmed in a response to a Parliamentary Question that student applications for UTCs were being encouraged: Nick Boles: Like all academies, each university technical ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing Paper Number 07250: 23 December 2019: University Technical Colleges
... to accept that UTCs had not worked as an experiment, despite some successes. He attributed the weaknesses of the policy to several factors: The first is the principle that admission should be at the age of 14. The ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 7951, 21 June 2017: Reforms to Technical Education
... We will establish new institutes of technology, backed by leading employers and linked to leading universities, in every major city in England. They will provide courses at degree level and above, specialising in ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 6836, 1 March 2017: School Sport in England
... 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 ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 1398, 10 March 2017: Grammar School Statistics
... In 2008 the then Department for Children, Schools and Families looked at the intake of grammar schools in comparison to that of their local area. This found that free school meal rates in grammars were not representative ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 7951, 8 January 2018: Technical education reforms
... We will establish new institutes of technology, backed by leading employers and linked to leading universities, in every major city in England. They will provide courses at degree level and above, specialising in ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number CBP 7919, 10 March 2017: Spring Budget 2017: A summary
... expenses. 8 However on 15 March the Chancellor announced that the Government would not proceed with the first of these reforms: in a letter to the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee Mr Hammond stated ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 7946, 11 April 2017: Millennials
... the University of Warwick have defined a non-graduate job as one in which the associated tasks do not normally require knowledge and skills developed through higher education to enable them to perform these tasks ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 6972, 13 March 2017: Faith Schools in England: FAQs
... 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 ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 06962, 31 March 2017: GCSE, AS and A level reform (England)
... In a Westminster Hall debate on AS levels and A levels in April 2013, the then Schools Minister, David Laws, explained why the Government were making the changes: ...We want to give students a better experience of ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 07059, 30 March 2017: FAQs: Academies and free schools
... Free schools are new state schools, whereas many academies are converter schools that were previously maintained by local authorities. Free schools operate in law as academies. Will all maintained schools have to convert ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 6962, 31 March 2017: GCSE, AS and A level reform (England)
... In a Westminster Hall debate on AS levels and A levels in April 2013, the then Schools Minister, David Laws, explained why the Government were making the changes: ...We want to give students a better experience of ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 5440, 20 March 2017: Higher Education Finance Statistics
... • Institutions with a greater share of income from fees and contracts were generally ‘new’ universities with lower research income along with some which have a large number of non-EU students. All were English ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 07236, 24 February 2017: Careers guidance in schools, colleges and universities
... Many institutions also offer extra-curricular schemes to help students to develop the ‘soft skills’ which are valued by employers – some of these schemes lead to awards which students can include in their CVs. Since ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 07236, 9 June 2017: Careers guidance in schools, colleges and universities
... Many institutions also offer extra-curricular schemes to help students to develop the ‘soft skills’ which are valued by employers – some of these schemes lead to awards which students can include in their CVs. Since ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing Paper: Number 07819, 8 March 2018: Constituency casework: schools in Scotland
... The Scottish Government guide to Choosing a School states that: If you have a child who is due to start primary school or who will be transferring to secondary school soon, your council will probably suggest that you ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 07236, 8 October 2018: Careers guidance in schools, colleges and universities
... Many institutions also offer extra-curricular schemes to help students to develop the ‘soft skills’ which are valued by employers – some of these schemes lead to awards which students can include in their CVs. Since ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 6103, 2 March 2017: Sex and Relationships Education in Schools (England)
... significant number of respondents indicated that they disagreed with the proposed changes, but analysis of the related comments revealed that this was because of misunderstanding the effect or raising issues that ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 06045, 4 September 2017: English Baccalaureate
... On 16 June 2015, the then Education Secretary Nicky Morgan made a speech outlining the Government’s plans; a compulsory EBacc would ensure pupils “study the core academic subjects at GCSE, the subjects that keep your ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 06045, 6 January 2017: English Baccalaureate
... On 16 June 2015, the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan made a speech outlining the Government’s plans; a compulsory EBacc would ensure pupils “study the core academic subjects at GCSE, the subjects that keep your options ...
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