Education Secretary Announces Return of Maintenance Grants for Students from Low-Income Households

In her speech at the Labour Party Conference today, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson pledged to introduce new targeted means-tested maintenance grants by the end of…

Labour's Pledge to Boost Work Experience and Careers Advice - Sector Reaction

Labour has today pledged to turbocharge careers advice and work experience in Schools and Colleges as part of its plans to usher in a revolution…

Labour promises to cut net migration without setting overall target

Labour is promising to cut net migration to the UK if it wins the election next month, but will not set an overall target. In…

Labour slams end to teacher recruitment programme for career switchers

With thousands of teaching vacancies across the country, and efforts at recruitment in key subjects failing for year after year, Labour has learned that the…

BMet students create winning digital solutions for real-world issues in competition final

BMet students have created winning solutions for current youth-focused issues, through a leading national Digital Skills Project Challenge. “Solve Nexus” from BMet’s Matthew Boulton College…

Story-based Functional Skills pilot could help vulnerable young people write a new chapter in their lives

A pilot investigating the impact of interactive, story-based assessment on vulnerable groups has found that the method can improve engagement, motivation, and outcomes in Functional…

Bridget Phillipson's speech at Labour Conference

Bridget Phillipson MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, speaking at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool. Thank you, Jayne, and thank you, Conference. Growing up in the North…

Labour to unveil “real world” primary maths teaching to encourage stronger lifelong numeracy

Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will today unveil a landmark new plan to encourage stronger lifelong numeracy by boosting early intervention and “real world”…

New data showing apprenticeship starts have fallen almost 5% over the last year

In the 2022/23 academic year, there was a 4.6% decrease in apprenticeship starts compared to the previous year (2021/22). Furthermore, the number of apprenticeship starts…

Conservatives scrapped building work planned by Labour in at least 19 schools with RAAC

New analysis from Labour shows that at least 19 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had building projects cancelled in 2010. The…

Labour will force vote to uncover the truth about schools with RAAC

Labour will force a vote next week to reveal information about the full extent of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in school buildings, which has forced…

Levelling Up in education “dead and buried”, says Labour after regional GCSE attainment gaps grow

Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Bridget declared the Conservatives’ pledge to “level up” education “dead and buried” after the Schools Minister admitted that rising regional GCSE…

Labour condemns widening regional attainment gap for students - Sector Reaction

Labour condemns widening regional attainment gap as students across the North and Midlands held back by Conservatives’ “managed decline of education standards” Labour condemns widening…

St Dunstan’s College celebrates best A Level results on record

St Dunstan’s College is delighted to announce Year 13 students have achieved the best A Level results on record for the school, when compared to…

Labour unveils plan to tackle regional teacher recruitment gaps as supply teacher spend jumps by half in a year

In the run up to the release of A level and GCSE results, Labour today unveiled more of its plans to target gaps in the…

Keir Starmer unveils Labour’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity at every stage

Today (6th July) The Labour Party has Launched their Opportunity Mission. Check out our article where we have compiled the sector’s response to this launch. Speech delivered…

Labour leader Keir Starmer will today pledge to shatter the ‘class ceiling’ in Britain

Labour leader Keir Starmer will today pledge to shatter the ‘class ceiling’ in Britain and undertake radical reform of the education system to prepare young…

<strong>Labour’s plan for world-class teachers to reduce agency payments as schools pay recruiters £8 billion to find new teachers since 2010</strong>

Labour has pledged to save taxpayers billions of pounds paid by schools each year to teacher recruitment agencies through its new plan to embed “world-class…

Bridget Phillipson speaks at Times Education Summit

Bridget Phillipson MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, spoke at the Times Education Summit, today (8 June 2023). Read below to find out what she said.…

Labour to force Commons vote to reveal location and extent of crumbling school buildings

Labour will today (Tuesday) force a vote on the publication of long overdue data revealing to parents the condition and location of crumbling school buildings,…

Labour pledges more teachers as part of plan to be “party of high and rising standards”

Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will today [Saturday] pledge to make Labour the party of “high and rising standards” in education by ensuring pupils…

Labour's Bridget Phillipson sets out plan to reform Ofsted

Phillipson declares Labour the Party of school standards as she sets out plan to reform Ofsted Shadow Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson MP, will today (Saturday…

Bridget Phillipson speech at Onward UK

I hope you’ll not think it graceless of me to say,that I’ve not felt this apprehensive about a speech, since I spoke at the National…

<strong>Number of women starting science, technology and engineering apprenticeships won’t catch up with men till 2044, says Labour</strong>

On current trends, it would take 22 years (until 2044) for the same number of women to be starting STEM apprenticeships as men, according to…

Lord Blunkett’s Learning and Skills Report demands “revolution” in learning and skills to boost sustainable economic growth

A new report by Labour’s council of skills advisers led by the former Education and Employment Secretary Lord David Blunkett has laid out recommendations for a “revolution”…

Labour announces plan for Skills: Growth and Skills Levy replacing the Apprenticeship Levy and Skills England

Keir Starmer has announced that in government Labour will give businesses the flexibility they need to train their workforce and deliver growth, by turning the Tories’…

BTEC results debacle shows government failing young people and failing on skills.

With many BTEC students across England still waiting for results almost three days after A-level, T-level and other results came out, Labour has demanded the…

Top A-level results fall a third faster in the North East than South East as Labour warns ‘Conservatives are failing our children’

The number of teenagers receiving top A or A* grades at A-level has fallen a third quicker in the North East than the South East,…

Labour demands 'Equal Access Guarantee' for school sport to cement Lionesses’ legacy

Labour demands ‘Equal Access Guarantee’ for school sport to cement Lionesses’ legacy Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has written to the Education Secretary demanding…

Bridget Phillipson calls for a Britain where children come first

Bridget Phillipson MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary at the Progressive Britain Conference I want to start by thanking all of you. Not just for being…

Childcare costs outstripping wages as Conservatives fail to support families

Childcare costs for primary school age children are soaring faster than wages, Labour has revealed, as the Party warns that the Conservatives are failing to…

Bridget Phillipson speech to the National Association of Head Teachers

Speech to the National Association of Head Teachers, 30 April 2022 Thank you to Tim, Paul, and your team for making me feel so welcome…

Apprenticeships failing working class school leavers despite reforms, says Onward

Vocational courses increasingly used as top-up training by older workers in wealthy areas Young people in the North suffer most, with new starts in the…

Labour reacts to research showing teacher recruitment subsiding

Stephen Morgan MP, Labour’s Shadow Schools Minister, (@StephenMorganMP) commenting on National Foundation for Educational Research that the resurgent labour market post-pandemic has led to the…

Labour's plan to put education at the heart of our ambition for Britain

#ASCL2022 – Bridget Phillipson (@bphillipsonMP) speech to Association of School & College Leaders (@ASCL_UK) Labour will today [Saturday 12th of March] commit to putting education…

Department for Education condemned for missing apprenticeships target - Phillipson

Department for Education (@educationgovuk) condemned for missing apprenticeships target, as Labour (@UKLabour) urges government to secure training opportunities for young people in National Apprenticeships Week…

Labour responds to figures showing that fewer than 6,500 government air purifiers have arrived in schools

Stephen Morgan MP, Labour’s Shadow Schools Minister, responding to figures showing that fewer than 6,500 government air purifiers have actually arrived in schools, said: “The…

Bridget Phillipson responds to the increased cost of children's lunches

Cost of children’s lunchbox up by an estimated 10% as cost of living crisis hits families’ pockets As children head back to school today, families…

More than half of Black children growing up in poverty under the Conservatives as Labour calls for Race Equality Act

@AnnelieseDodds @UKLabour calls for new Race Equality Act following analysis showing more than half of black children growing up in poverty The number of children…