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201 records in UK in 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the potential benefits of adult education courses for people with mental health problems.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to increase the number of early education places for children (a) under the age of three and (b) aged three and four; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to change the rules on staff-pupil ratios in early education settings.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will discuss with the Treasury the introduction of three-year funding plans for colleges to align with the period of the Spending Review.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to increase the number of qualified staff working on early education settings.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, why school and academy sixth forms have not been included in recommendations arising out of reviews of post-16 education and training; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's publication, Reviewing post-16 education and training institutions, of 20 July 2015, how much her Department expects to save as a result of implementing the proposals set out
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish a timetable for the review of post-16 education and training by area; and when such reviews will take place.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his Department's publication, Reviewing post-16 education and training institutions, of 20 July 2015, how much his Department expects to save as a result of implementing
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when post-16 education will be reviewed in Merseyside under the area review process; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many planning areas in England are in need of additional secondary school places by September 2016; in how many of those planning areas has there never been an application to open a secondary or all-through
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many planning areas in England are in need of additional primary school places by September 2016; in how many of those planning areas there has never been an application to open a primary or all-through mai
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what joint work she and her French counterpart are undertaking on providing governance and capacity-building support for francophone Africa.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her officials met with their counterparts in the devolved administrations in the last three years; and what the subjects for discussion or agreement were at each of those meetings.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many vocational qualifications were achieved by those serving prison sentences in England and Wales in each of the last three years, broken down by subject and level.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the suitability of the current range of vocational qualifications offered to those serving prison sentences in England and Wales.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
I am today laying before Parliament a Green Paper on Higher Education entitled Fulfilling Our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice. The paper sets out a broad range of proposals to:raise teaching standards in higher education...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Universities and Science (Jo Johnson) has today made the following statement. I am today laying before Parliament a Green Paper on Higher Education entitled Fulfilling Our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve health literacy among children; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress his Department has made on introducing loans for postgraduate study.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of her Department's policies have been assessed against the family test; what steps she has taken to publish the outcome of such assessments that have been carried out; and if she will make a statement
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to implement the family test.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to support and promote Self Care Week; and what promotional materials he is disseminating in the NHS to support that campaign.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which regulations her Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations her Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will continue to fund the Routes into Languages programme after the current funding expires in July 2016.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to address the relative low educational attainment in coastal communities; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
We are reforming GCSEs to make sure that they give students the best possible preparation for further and higher education, and for employment. We want new GCSEs to set expectations which match those of the best education systems in the world, with rigoro...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Schools has today made the following statement:We are reforming GCSEs to make sure that they give students the best possible preparation for further and higher education, and for employment. We want new GCSEs...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether home educators are permitted under her Department's guidance to receive help from education authorities (a) through the SEN budget and (b) for looked after children, through the pupil premium; and what
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of posts for teaching (a) English and (b) mathematics in further education colleges that are (i) unfilled and (ii) filled by teachers without a qualification in those su
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evidential basis there is for there being a link between enabling students from low and middle income backgrounds to attend university and improving UK productivity set out in his report, Fixing the foundations:
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans the Government has to move away from the funding per qualification model for adult learners as set out in the HM Treasury report, Fixing the foundations: Creating a more prosper
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the likely change in the number of students in further education colleges after 2020; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he or Ministers in his Department will attend the heats and further stages of the Bar National Mock Trials Competition.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of annual funding cycles on the ability of further education and sixth form colleges to undertake financial planning; what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleag
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on further plans to increase the provision of shared and integrated education.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the qualifying threshold for baseline assessment providers was set at 10 per cent of primary schools.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department examined international comparators when developing the policy of a reception baseline assessment; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to (a) regulate freelance sports coaches (b) ensure that such coaches have an enhanced DBS check in order to safeguard children.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason it is her policy that scores attained through the Reception Assessment baseline will not be scaled for age; if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policy of the findings of r
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average time her Department took to respond to freedom of information requests in each year since 2005.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive on the need for that Executive to help increase shared and integrated education.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary schools signed up to (a) Centre for Education and Monitoring, Durham University, (b) Early Excellence, (c) GL Assessment, (d) Hodder Education, (e) National Foundation fo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 13325, how many bursaries his Department offered people to become mathematics teachers in the further education sector in each year fr
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 13325, how many mathematics enhancement programmes his Department offered people in the further education sector in each year from 20
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's policies of providing bursaries and mathematics enhancement programmes to teaching staff in the further education sector on th
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to encourage more teachers with qualifications in English and mathematics to take up posts in further education colleges.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the average cost of a new uniform for secondary school students.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that school pupils are taught the dangers of gambling addiction; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support his Department is providing to higher education institutions to increase the number of post-doctoral positions offered; and if he will make a statement.