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Easy News: party views on Education

We have gathered the views of the different parties on issues relating to schools, universities and skills. These are summaries from the manifestos or announcements during the election period by the main English political parties.

Easy News: party views on Education

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  1. 1: Conservative Party views on education

    1. The Conservative Party say they will get rid of some university degrees that that they think do not help people find good jobs.

    2. Instead, they will make 100,000 more apprenticeships. Apprenticeships let people work in a company whilst still learning, so they can get work experience.

    3. They want to create 15 new free Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools and 60,000 more school places for SEN students

    4. Make 18-year-olds take part in a form of national service for 1 year, where they will either need to join a military training scheme or complete a community volunteering programme.

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  2. 2: Labour Party views on education

    1. They will remove the tax break on private schools and make them pay VAT. VAT is the tax added onto some goods and services and is set at 20%. Private schools are school that you can only go to if you pay money.

    2. They want to set up free breakfast clubs in every primary school in England.

    3. Labour want to make sure that children with special educational needs and disabilities are included better in schools, and that they have really good teachers.

    4. They also want all schools to work with their local authority to makes sure every child with special educational needs and disabilities goes to the right school and feels welcome.

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  3. 3: The Green Party views on education

    1. All students in state-funded schools and colleges will get access to a qualified counsellor.

    2. The Greens want to get rid of tuition fees. This is the money that most students pay if they want to go to university.

    3. They want to give £5bn to special needs support in mainstream schools, so all schools have accessible buildings and specially trained teachers.

    4. The Green Party would also like to get rid of OFSTED, the government organisation that inspects and rates all educational institutions like schools in the UK.

    5. The Green Party would also increase school funding by £8 billion, with £2 billion for teacher's pay.

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  4. 4: Liberal Democrats' views on education

    1. Introduce a tutoring guarantee for every disadvantaged pupil. Tutoring is extra help with school work given outside of school hours. Disadvantaged pupils are those who need extra support because of lack of money or difficult family issues that mean they do not live with their birth parents.

    2. Give more money to fund early years education, such as making Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) three times bigger to £1000 a year and giving disadvantaged students 3-5 hours of extra, free education a week. EYPP is Government funding for early years providers to support disadvantaged 3-4 year olds.

    3. Create a new Lifelong Skills Grant of £5,000 for adults to spend on education.

    4. They would give extra money to help schools with the cost of a child’s Education, Health and Care Plan.

    5. They would also create a new organisation called the 'National Body for SEND' to fund support for children with very high needs.

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  5. 5: Reform UK views on education

    1. Reform wants schools to teach children “there are two sexes and two genders”.

    2. Sex identity is based on whether you were born with a penis or a vagina. Gender identity is based around whether you feel like you are a man or a woman in your brain.

    3. They plan to offer Tax relief of 20% for private schools.

    4. Interest on student loans would be stopped. Interest is money added onto a loan as a charge by the bank and it can add £1000s onto how much students need to pay back.

    5. Reform want to stop school teaching critical race theory. Critical race theory is the idea that we should look at how race and racism affect laws and systems to understand them better.

    6. The Reform party wants to double the number of schools in the UK that help pupils who can't go to regular school because they learn differently, have health problems, feel too scared or anxious to go, have trouble behaving in class, or are waiting for a spot in a regular school.

    7. Reform want to make schools more patriotic. Patriotic means to be proud of your country. They do not want schools teaching about bad things Britain has done in the past, such as slavery, without also talking about similar things done by other, non-European countries.

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