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Is there too much inequality in education?

By Annalise Murray, Work Experience Student, Monday 07 December 2015

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This week, the Pope has repeated his call for teachers to be better paid, and for inequality in education to be eradicated. During a Vatican conference on education, he said that teachers were “among the worst-paid workers”. He called this an “injustice” and stated that “the educational alliance is broken. And this is our [Catholics’] job, to find new paths.” He called for better education for the poorest in society and an end to the focus on only educating “supermen”; intelligent people from affluent backgrounds. And this certainly seems to be the case. Although the OECD report that teachers are paid £40 per hour in the UK (and £27 in Italy), this doesn’t factor in the hours teachers put in outside of school time – and there are a lot of them. The TUC found 57.5% of secondary school staff work unpaid overtime, an average of 12.5 hours per week. For primary schools, the situation is exacerbated further; 61.4% of staff work overtime for an average of 12.9 hours per week.

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Apprenticeship levy rate announced

By , Friday 04 December 2015

One of the most highly anticipated announcements of the Autumn Statement was the Apprenticeship levy rate, which has been set at 0.5%. The government has placed a strong focus on Apprenticeships in its current term of Parliament, with the aim of creating 3 million new places by 2020.

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Autumn Statement 2015: NCFE predictions

By Michael Lemin, Policy and Research Manager, Wednesday 25 November 2015

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Ahead of the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement, we’re predicting that the further education sector will continue to be negatively impacted as a result of the announcements due to be made by the Chancellor today. Following the announcement of and extensive discussion around the Apprenticeship levy, it is expected that the levy rate will be announced this afternoon.

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What did the Autumn Statement reveal?

By Michael Lemin, Policy and Research Manager, Wednesday 25 November 2015

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Chancellor George Osborne today delivered the Autumn Statement, which he combined with the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review, to announce each governmental department’s spending limit for the next four years. We, as well as many in the sector, were braced for up to a 40% cut in the Adult Skills Budget (ASB), as this has often been the first area in education to see large reductions in spending when the government is looking to save costs.

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More vocational reforms?

By , Thursday 19 November 2015

Skills Minister Nick Boles has recently announced that the government will be making “ground breaking changes to technical and professional education.” Many believe the upcoming changes are a continuation of the reforms brought on by the 2011 Wolf report, which sought to remove “3000 worthless courses”. The aim is understood to be to simplify the vocational education system and bring its reputation in line with university and higher education.

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