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GCSE Pass Rate (Northamptonshire) — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): As my hon. Friend recognises, as a Department we have worked very hard with his local authority to try steadily to increase and improve results. In addition to the work that is already under way, we want to see stronger school improvement via schools collaborating more effectively and by ensuring that more of the UK or England-wide programmes, such as Mathematics Mastery, are properly rolled out in his local area.
GCSE Pass Rate (Northamptonshire) — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course, this Government have spent much time and resources on improving reading and literacy in our schools. We have protected the core schools budget across the course of this Parliament and it is up to schools where they want to spend that money, but we certainly want to see continued improvement in literacy and reading results across England.
GCSE Pass Rate (Northamptonshire) — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): Getting it right early is crucial to securing future success for our young people in Northamptonshire, so will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Woodnewton learning community on winning the Marjorie Boxall quality mark award for its brilliant nurture group and send her best wishes to Ellen Wallace, the headteacher, and her brilliant team?
GCSE Pass Rate (Northamptonshire) — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I congratulate Ellen Wallace and the team at the school that my hon. Friend talks about. They have done a fantastic job in achieving that award, showing that strong leadership in a school alongside collaboration between schools is a key way for schools to improve.
GCSE Pass Rate (Northamptonshire) — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not think that the Government need to take any lessons from Labour, who in government presided over grade inflation and young people leaving our education system who were simply unable to read or write. I remind the hon. Lady that, according to the CBI, on Labour’s watch the number of employers who were dissatisfied with school and college leavers’ basic skills remained stuck at around a third. In other words, it had not shifted at all. In fact, 42 % reported that they had had to provide remedial training for school and college leavers.
Work Visas — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman and I have discussed this issue many times in Bill Committee in recent weeks. I point him to my earlier answer, which is that Scottish institutions continue to see year-on-year growth in the number of overseas applicants, which has increased by 10% since 2010, and we continue to look for opportunities to support them in recruiting genuine students.
Work Visas — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): We certainly are not turning our back on genuine international students. We welcome them warmly. There are no limits on the number who can come here and no limit on the number who can switch into work after they finish their studies. We want to see more in the years ahead and we look forward to supporting our high quality institutions in recruiting successfully in countries such as the ones my hon. Friend mentioned.
Work Visas — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Law and Crime
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Home Office is conducting a successful pilot. It is under way with four institutions—Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London and Bath. This is a Home Office responsibility and I encourage the hon. Lady to direct her questions there.
Nursery Schools/Children’s Centres — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of planned changes to the early years funding formula on the financial viability of maintained nursery schools and children’s centres.
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is absolutely right to point out that maintained nursery schools provide some good and outstanding care in the vast majority of their settings and in some of the most deprived parts of the country. That is why we have said that we are going to protect their funding for at least the next two years. We will say more about that funding shortly when we respond to the early years national funding formula consultation.
Nursery Schools/Children’s Centres — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of planned changes to the early years funding formula on the financial viability of maintained nursery schools and children’s centres.; Yesterday’s British Chambers of Commerce survey concluded that childcare should be considered part of our national infrastructure for keeping people in work. Nursery schools provide that service in some of our most deprived areas, while promoting social mobility, so why on earth are the Government stripping their resources away at this critical time? In two years’ time, we will still face the same challenges in terms of social mobility and education, and we will need nursery schools to be properly funded.
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): I challenge all the things the hon. Lady said. We are not stripping funding from nursery schools; the supplementary funding of £55 million a year is part of the record investment in childcare of £6 billion a year by 2020. That is more than any Government have ever spent.
Nursery Schools/Children’s Centres — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of planned changes to the early years funding formula on the financial viability of maintained nursery schools and children’s centres.; Yesterday’s British Chambers of Commerce survey concluded that childcare should be considered part of our national infrastructure for keeping people in work. Nursery schools provide that service in some of our most deprived areas, while promoting social mobility, so why on earth are the Government stripping their resources away at this critical time? In two years’ time, we will still face the same challenges in terms of social mobility and education, and we will need nursery schools to be properly funded.
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): I would say that we have made 6 billion points about how important we regard the sector to be. The hon. Lady is right that it does need to know about its future, but it does not make sense to make decisions about the future funding of maintained nursery schools before we have consulted on what that future should be. We will be consulting on that future, and we will make an announcement shortly.
Nursery Schools — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): With your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to link Question 5 with Question 15. Maintained nursery schools make a very important contribution to social mobility. We want them to be sustainable in the long term. We have already committed £55 million a year of supplementary funding for maintained nursery schools for at least the next two years, and we will shortly be consulting them on how to do this further.
Nursery Schools — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Andrew George Stephenson (Conservative, Centre-right): I met Jan Holmes, the headteacher of Walton Lane Nursery, and many other Pendle nursery headteachers recently. Further to many of the points that have already been made, will my hon. Friend commit to extending the funding for maintained nursery schools beyond the two years indicated in the consultation, as nursery schools really do make a difference to some of the poorest children in my constituency?
Nursery Schools — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): Mr Speaker, I would never, ever accuse you of being wrong about anything. My hon. Friend is also right: maintained nursery schools play a vital role in tackling disadvantage. As I said, the £55 million commitment is for at least two years. We will say more about the funding of maintained nursery schools shortly, when we respond to our consultation on the early years national funding formula.
Nursery Schools — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Heidi-Suzanne Allen (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker, for preserving my Question 17. I am so pleased to hear that the Minister understands the real difference that local authority-funded nursery schools provide, and that a plan to fund them sustainably beyond two years is imminent. May I add my calls on behalf of Homerton Children’s Centre in my constituency? That announcement cannot come too soon. These children are vulnerable and they need a secure future.
Nursery Schools — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right to say that maintained nursery schools often offer very high-value education, with 98% of them rated good or outstanding and 80% of them in areas of deprivation. As I have said, we will say more about their funding very shortly when we respond to our early years funding formula consultation.
Nursery Schools — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): First, we have consulted on the early years funding formula. We have not yet released the findings of that consultation, but they will be released shortly. In addition, we have said that we will support maintained nursery schools with an additional £55 million for at least the next two years. That is not saying that any maintained nursery schools are going to be shutting. I am more than happy to meet any nursery schools, and I have met a number from up and down the country—
Nursery Schools — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Social Welfare
Caroline Julia Dinenage (Conservative, Centre-right): There are no cuts. The cuts are a figment of the hon. Gentleman’s imagination. We are putting an extra £6 billion of funding into this scheme by 2020. It is more than any Government have ever spent on early years childcare.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): We are driving up social mobility by levelling up opportunity. That is why it is so vital to drive up standards in education, in terms of both academic routes and technical education. Opportunity areas are also in the vanguard of our approach.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman will be aware—or perhaps he has missed it—that we are bringing the Technical and Further Education Bill before Parliament on Second Reading later today. It matches the fact that we have aspirations to drive up standards in further education in the same way as we have done in academic education routes.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Lucy Allan (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Secretary of State agree that lifting the ban on selective schools can create greater opportunity for the least advantaged, and that doing so would enable more children in Telford to realise their full potential and enter top professions such as medicine and law?
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): I do, and what we should not do is to allow ideology to get in the way of giving parents greater choice. The reality is that boys on free school meal provision who go to grammars have got three times more chance of getting into Russell Group universities than their other counterparts.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Social Welfare
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure that the hon. Lady welcomes the Government’s ambition to double the amount of childcare from 15 to 30 hours during this Parliament, which is why we are putting in more funding. We have consulted on that, and we will respond to the consultation shortly.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Felicia Jane Beatrix Drummond (Conservative, Centre-right): One of the social mobility issues is about encouraging teachers to get pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to Russell Group universities. What are the Government doing to encourage young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to apply to the top universities?
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): I met the vice-chancellor of Exeter University only last week to talk about some of the work that he and, indeed, the broader Russell Group are doing. It is important that we push this even more in the future than we have in the past. Alongside the proposals on selective education, some of the work we are doing in specific areas, such as on areas of opportunity, will make a massive difference over time.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Social Welfare
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): First, we should all recognise that social mobility is a long-standing generational challenge that will not be fixed overnight. It has been present in our country for many decades. In the end, the route out of poverty is to have a strong economy, coupled with strong productivity. That is why the education agenda is not just about allowing people to reach their potential, but about enabling our country and our economy to do the same.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Brett Charles Anthony Elphicke (Conservative, Centre-right): Parents in Dover and Deal want the choice of social mobility, with new grammar schools and new faith-based schools. They also want to thank the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills for his dogged support of higher and further education in east Kent.
Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Justine Greening (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure that my right hon. Friend will be very pleased to receive that compliment. I know that my hon. Friend has been a strong champion for his local community. Alongside all the other work we are doing, including in introducing the Technical and Further Education Bill later today, 3 million apprenticeships during this Parliament will be a step change in providing opportunities for young people in our country.
Schools: London — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): We will introduce a national funding formula from April 2018, so that schools in all parts of the country are funded fairly and consistently. This significant reform will mean children with the same needs are funded at the same rate wherever they live. We will put forward our detailed proposals for consultation later this year, and make final decisions in the new year.
Schools: London — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Minister accept, in looking at appropriate funding, that there is a great deal of complexity within London, that needs and demands vary within the capital and that, for funding, we currently deal with an artificial distinction between inner and outer London boroughs? That distinction goes back to the disappearance of the London County Council in 1966, and it is no longer relevant to the modern demographic and social pressures that our schools face.
Schools: London — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question, which I will take as a response to our consultation document. The proposals in the document for an area cost adjustment are about using either a general labour market methodology or a hybrid methodology with two elements: the four regional pay bands and a general labour market methodology for non-teaching staff costs. We will respond to the consultation shortly.
Schools: London — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): We are protecting core school funding in real terms. We can do that because we have a strong economy. The hon. Gentleman may not have been here when the last Labour Government were in power, but he should be aware that the number of students taking modern foreign languages plummeted as a direct consequence of a decision taken by Labour in 2004 to stop languages being compulsory up to GCSE.
Schools: London — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): The Secretary of State was right: we are protecting core schools funding in real terms. We are consulting on a range of factors such as deprivation, English as an additional language and sparsity, for which there is a flat figure per school. All those factors are part of the consultation document because we are addressing an historic unfairness in the funding system that Labour presided over for 13 years. This Government are taking action to address that. I would have hoped that the hon. Gentleman supported the consultation, rather than criticise it.
Higher Education — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government are fully committed to ensuring that our universities get the best possible deal from the negotiations with the EU. We recognise the key issues for the sector as being the ability to recruit EU students, the student financial support to which they have access, EU programmes and funding streams and the status of UK students studying abroad. The future arrangements on all those issues will have to be considered as part of the wider discussions about our future relationship with the EU.
Higher Education — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Department has moved rapidly to provide significant reassurances to the sector in a number of respects, particularly on the continuity of the funding arrangements for Horizon 2020 resources. The Treasury will make up the continuing obligations on payments that fall due after we have left the EU. We have made it clear that EU students will be able to access our loan book and home fee status for the duration of their course of study if they start in the 2016-17 or 2017-18 academic year.
Higher Education — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): We fully value the contribution that EU staff make to the success of UK institutions. The higher education sector has a long-established tradition of attracting brilliant academics and students at all stages of their careers, and we are working hard to ensure that that continues. The Prime Minister has given assurances that she has every expectation of being able to guarantee the status of such academics, provided that other countries reciprocate for British nationals in their countries.
Higher Education — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: International Affairs
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): As I said in my earlier answer, the relationship we have with the EU will be the subject of a broad discussion, and among the important issues at stake in that will be the future of our access to funding streams that have been of value to institutions such as those the hon. Gentleman mentions.
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Robert Henry Halfon (Conservative, Centre-right): May I begin by paying tribute to my predecessor, the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles), and wishing him a speedy recovery We are transforming Britain into an apprenticeship and skills nation. We have ensured that schools provide high-quality careers guidance to pupils on their different options, and there is a legal requirement for schools to inform pupils about apprenticeships and other vocational options. We have also established the Careers & Enterprise Company to transform careers provision for young people, to inspire them and prepare them for the world of work.
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
James Jacob Gilchrist Berry (Conservative, Centre-right): Sian Nixon, the modern languages teacher, is one of the many inspirational teachers at Haslingden High School. She has invited me and a local manufacturer to go into the school and talk about the value of modern languages before pupils make their GCSE choices. Will the Government say what can be done to encourage more businesses to enter schools, in particular to promote apprenticeships in areas of high manufacturing worth such as Rossendale and Darwen?
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Robert Henry Halfon (Conservative, Centre-right): I know that my hon. Friend is an incredible constituency champion on skills and careers. I hope that when he goes into that school he will talk about apprenticeships as well as modern languages. We have created the Careers & Enterprise Company, with £90 million of investment. It has 1,200 enterprise advisers to help more than 900 schools interact with businesses and have work experience and other career options.[Official Report, 23 November 2016, Vol. 617, c. 1MC.]
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Robert Henry Halfon (Conservative, Centre-right): I have very good news for the hon. Gentleman. The number of apprentices doing higher apprenticeships has gone up by 500%. If we include degree apprenticeships, in which we are investing millions of pounds, more than 28,000 people are doing higher apprenticeships or degree apprenticeships.
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I am delighted to hear the Minister speak so warmly of the Careers & Enterprise Company, and I know he will do a terrific job in his post. For schools to promote apprenticeships successfully the apprenticeship positions must be there for students to move into. He will have had a letter from IMPACT Apprenticeships and Loughborough College in my constituency about the latest announcements regarding apprenticeship training agencies and levy paying companies’ not being able to transfer funds to the agencies, as that will be delayed until May 2018. Will he meet me to discuss that further?
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Labor
Robert Henry Halfon (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very happy to meet my right hon. Friend and the apprenticeship training agency she mentioned. As she has said, from 2018 it will be possible for employers paying the levy to transfer up to 10% of the levy funds to indirect employers.
Apprenticeships — House of Commons, 2016-11-14
Topic: Education
Robert Henry Halfon (Conservative, Centre-right): As I said, we are transforming our country into an apprenticeships and skills nation. The whole point of the Bill is to drive up standards to help improve our technical education offering. We already have an Institute for Apprenticeships, which will be up and running by April 2017.