The funding model here is *messy*

Tories reckon the courses OfS shuts down would save £1.1 billion in unpaid loan subsidies.

Then ambitiously assumes 50% of cohort whose courses are shut go to apprenticeships, 25% to employment and 25% to another degree

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Hahaha they’ve changed it

Does… does this man know how old 18-year-olds are and how old they were four years ago?

.Paul Whiteman: 'It’s disrespectful to the profession to withhold this information, and the government should have published it before we entered the pre-election period'

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so, people who were in secondary school when furlough was announced

Scoop: Keegan confirms to unions govt 'will not be able' to publish response to recommendations on teacher pay for the election

Daniel Kebede accuses govt of 'act of cowardice in leaving the issue of teacher pay in the in-tray for a new government'

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When I was 18, I was working full time, long days and frequently at weekends. I've no idea how I'd have fitted in 'national service'

Many 18-year-olds are in the workforce. Many have caring responsibilities. Are we really going to tell them their contribution is not enough?

.Pepe Di’Iasio: 'It is extremely frustrating because it means a long delay before schools have any degree of certainty over their costs next year. Schools just cannot plan their budgets under these circumstances'

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Scoop: Keegan confirms to unions govt 'will not be able' to publish response to recommendations on teacher pay for the election

Daniel Kebede accuses govt of 'act of cowardice in leaving the issue of teacher pay in the in-tray for a new government'

schoolsweek.co.uk/teacher-pay-re…

How about a tax on mean-spiritedness towards the generation below one's own borne out of a combination of lack of understanding and jealousy of youth. They'd make a fortune from all of us for years to come

They did. They sacrificed their education to keep their grandparents alive.

lol, lmao, etc

because of the election my petition closes end of this month & it won’t reopen. I’m so upset as don’t think I’ll get the number required for a response.This feels utterly fruitless all the effort for 3 months cut off. Need 10,000

Please sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6559…

'With sub-inflation pay offers and an absence of pay progression, civil servants are left with no option but to move roles to seek higher pay”

Helen Kenny speaks to Freddie Whittaker about staff turnover in the Department for Education.

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In a move that will surprise precisely no-one, Sir Ian Bauckham has been nominated as the government's pick to replace himself as chief regulator of Ofqual

He's served in an interim capacity since January

But the final decision may rest with Labour...

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