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301 records in UK in 2014
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress he has made in negotiations with private publishers on the confidentiality clauses negotiated by them when supplying university libraries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
A Bill to make provision to ensure that pupils with a parent with a terminal or seriously disabling illness receive priority in the admissions process to maintained schools in England.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2014
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to provide that Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) be a statutory requirement for all state funded schools; for PSHE to include Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) and education on ending violence against women and girls; to provide for initial and continuing teacher education and guidance on best practice for delivering and inspecting PSHE and SRE education; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in further education or training in the last academic year were (a) parents and (b) single parents.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason it is not possible for telephone callers to be put through to the Education Funding Agency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary pupils from each region have engaged with (a) theatre activities, (b) music activities, (c) dance and (d) other arts in each year since 2009-10.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary pupils from (a) disadvantaged backgrounds and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds have engaged with (i) theatre activities, (ii) music activities, (iii) dance and (iv) other arts in eac
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps he has taken to improve transparency in the procurement processes of university libraries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children in England starting primary school in September 2014 who have received a place at their first choice school.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Lancaster City Council's Local Plan for Lancaster District 2011-2031: Strategic Options for Land Allocations, what assessment his Department has made of the potential expansion of demand for e
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places were available in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency in each year since 1995-96.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of research and development contracts undertaken by publicly-funded universities for private companies are covered by clauses that prohibit the publication of the research
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that adequate funds are allocated to further education colleges.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding was provided to each pupil in state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in Warrington in (A) cash terms and (B) at 2014 prices in each year since 1995-96.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many school children are educated at home; and how they ensure that a high quality of education is maintained for those pupils.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many children received schooling as a direct result of UK aid in (a) sub-Saharan Africa and (b) South Asia in the latest period for which figures are available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many ethnic minority students, broken down by ethnicity, attended universities in (1) 1990, (2) 2000, (3) 2010, and (4) the latest year for which figures are available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether an independent school (a) teaching creationism and (b) failing to teach evolution as an established scientific theory would lead to it receiving a lower rating under the independent schools inspection f
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 555W, on creationism, what mechanisms his Department has put in place to ensure that the Government's position on creationism and evolution
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in state education in (a) York local authority area and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber region achieved (i) Level 2 or above in key stage 1 SATS, (ii) Level 4 or above in key stage 2 En
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places were available in City of York constituency in 1995-96 and in each year since.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the revenue spending was for each (a) primary and (b) secondary pupil in York Unitary Authority area in each year since 2008-09 and in each year since.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many UCAS applications there were to (a) the University of York and (b) University of York St John in 2008-09 and in each year since then.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much mainstream grant funding was allocated by the Training and Development Agency for Schools to (a) the University of York and (b) York St John University in (i) cash terms and (ii) at constant prices in
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding was provided to each pupil in state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in (A) York local authority and (B) Yorkshire and the Humber in (1) cash terms and (2) at
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what input officials in his Department sought from their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive in preparation for the UK's attendance at the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council h
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people from (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber (i) applied for and (ii) started a degree course in each year
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many prisoners have completed university degrees inside prison in each of the last 10 years; and what the cost to the public purse was of that education.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions there have been under section 444(1A) of the Education Act 1996 in the last twelve months for which information is available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote best practice for sexual health amongst local authorities and (b) disseminate good practice shown by local authorities on sexual health.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the charitable status of fee-charging educational foundations with more than 75 per cent of pupils from outside the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality and increase the uptake of foreign language training in schools; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 June 2014
To make provision about improved access to finance for businesses and individuals; to make provision about regulatory provisions relating to business and certain voluntary and community bodies; to make provision about the exercise of procurement functions by certain public authorities; to make provision for the creation of a Pubs Code and Adjudicator for the regulation of dealings by pub-owning businesses with their tied pub tenants; to make provision about the regulation of the provision of childcare; to make provision about information relating to the evaluation of education; to make provision about the regulation of companies; to make provision about company filing requirements; to make provision about the disqualification from appointments relating to companies; to make provision about insolvency; to make provision about the law relating to employment; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to support FPA Sexual Health Week 2014; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to encourage universities in the UK to enter into partnerships and twinning arrangements with the British University in Egypt.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what penalties would be incurred by a free school, academy or other educational establishment which was found to be teaching or otherwise supporting creationism.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on negotiations between Health Education England and university providers of undergraduate health education courses for health allied professional staff regarding the benchmark price fo
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on negotiations in respect of the National Framework Contract between Health Education England and university providers of undergraduate health education courses for the health-allied p
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to establish a nationwide appeals system for higher education students in the United Kingdom who wish to appeal on the basis of awarded grades or complain about alleged unfair treatment by university st
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what they are doing to increase the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths subjects, in particular female students.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency were enrolled in adult skills training in each of the last 10 years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria underlay his Department's decision that the Arts Council will in future be responsible for the funding of music in schools; and what criteria will be used to evaluate the outcome for schools of th
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many years the longest serving headteacher on the panel which assessed the Institute of Education proposal to establish a university training school in Holborn and St Pancras had been a school head.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of retention rates at learning providers with designated course status.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in England have a (a) science subject leader and (b) subject leader who has a science degree.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local education authorities have procedures in place to protect whistleblowers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of school leavers in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England entered further education in each of the last four years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the numbers of primary school teachers with (1) a science degree, or (2) a science A-level, as their highest science qualification.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many primary schools in England have (1) a science subject leader, and (2) a science subject leader who has a science degree.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 June 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students at schools in Dartford applied for higher education places in each of the last five years.