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251 records in UK in 2014
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the performance in external examinations of home schooled children at Key Stage (a) 2, (b) 3 and (c) 4 in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will take steps to ensure that the public are made aware of the dangers that may result from excessive exposure to the sun.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 August 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in South Staffordshire constituency obtained places at university in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the publication of the Ministry of Defence's Global Strategic Trends out to 2045, what consideration they have given to educational inequalities in the developing world; and how the United Kingdom can aid the clo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support universities to address the problems highlighted in the recent report published by the Nuffield Foundation and the London School of Economics entitled Black and Minority Ethnic Access T
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they intend to take to increase the number of students enrolling in further and higher education; and how they intend to fund any growth in student numbers in 2015–16, in the light of the announcement on 20 July
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Earl Howe on 9 July (HL Deb, col 216), how many managerial and clerical appointments have been made to Healthcare Education England.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what arrangements they have in place to assess the performance of the Department for Education Board overall, and of its individual members.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has for increasing the role of private colleges in provision of further and higher education; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether any official in his Department amended, or caused to be amended, the report of the Internal Audit Investigation Team which visited the London School of Science and Technology betwe
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 8 July (WA 38) on improving the teaching of English and maths, what measures have been established for English to match the "over 32 new maths hubs...to improve the quality of
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 14 July (WA 105), what steps they have taken to ensure that teachers of English will have access to "high quality text books" comparable to those mentioned by Lord Nash with re
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that teachers of English in the new Key Stage 4 curriculum issued in July 2014 are as aware as their colleagues teaching maths and the sciences of the importance placed by the curriculum
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places were available in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to allow a relaxation of up to four additional places in the maximum number of pupils in an infant class in areas where the demand exceeds the number of places available at the lo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students at schools in (a) Preston constituency and (b) each other constituency in Lancashire applied for higher education places in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage the study of foreign languages in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage the uptake of mathematics in post-16 education; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage the inclusion of employers in devising vocational education; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which music education hubs in England have placed the majority of their music teachers on notice of redundancy since they were first established in 2012; and which hubs do not employ their music teachers on reg
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role her Department sees for music education hubs in music curriculum teaching in schools; and how she expects those hubs to effectively fulfil their responsibilities.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will support proposals to amend the goal on education to provide free, equitable and inclusive quality education and life-long learning opportunities for all in the Sustainable Developmen
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many 16 to 19 year olds who have not achieved English and mathematics to level two are not continuing to study these subjects.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the responsibilities will be of the Minister of State in her Department, the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote alternatives to university to young people.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that schools teach pupils the importance of participating within the democratic process.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to involve employers in devising vocational education; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that schools promote British values.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage the teaching of entrepreneurship in schools.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 3 July (WA 280), what plans they have to expand the authority of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator to include considerations of academic judgment or to
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department will publish the experimental data for the 16 to 19 2012-13 performance tables.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July, Official Report, column 143-4W on Arts: Primary Education, what data are collected by his Department as part of the Taking Part Survey.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what data his Department has collected from the Taking Part Survey on the primary school pupils from each region who have engaged with (a) theatre activities, (b) music activities, (c) dance and
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Taking Part Survey, what proportion of primary pupils from (a) disadvantaged backgrounds and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds have engaged with (i) theatre activities, (ii)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding has been provided to each pupil in state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in Brighton and Hove (A) in cash terms and (B) at 2014 prices in each year since 2010
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places were available in (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) Brighton, Kemptown constituency in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) men and (b) women who benefited from free early education were in training or further education in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the risks of obesity and the importance of physical recreation are being taught in schools.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of qualified teachers in physical education, especially in infant and primary schools.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of those who accepted a university place to study (a) engineering, (b) technology, (c) mathematics and computer science, (d) architecture and (e) physical science were fema
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made on the potential effect of universal credit on the education maintenance allowance in Wales.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures are in place to encourage enterprise in schools and university technical colleges and to give students technical skills for employment.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce regional variations in standards of education.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many schoolchildren are taught at home in the United Kingdom; and how the educational quality of home-schooling is maintained for such pupils.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of foreign languages in schools.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people who had been in receipt of free school meals applied to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 2010-11.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of an increase in the numbers of young people at school age on funding for provision for 16-18 year olds in each year of the next Parliament.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps he has taken to encourage businesses to engage with schools so that students develop a more practical understanding of business.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to make additional provision for adult education in places where centres such as Learn Direct are being closed down.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to promote the Open Access academic publishing movement in the UK.