A major part of the problem is high tax rates driven by borrowing for higher education courses that they’d be better off not taking.
Researchers estimated that “a third and half of those reviewing a grant bid would mark it lower if it took a right-wing perspective”
One way in which we can achieve this is by formally splitting courses into three categories.
The world of work has moved on, so that training, and indeed retraining, needs to happen not just for 18 year olds, but everyone throughout their lives.
This crisis, though we wish it could have been avoided – is a big wake-up call to these institutions that business cannot continue as normal.
The most deprived children are facing greater challenges to their education; Britain must remedy this disadvantage gap.
The restriction on the number of apprentices small businesses can take on should be lifted. FE colleges should boost entrepreneurship.
The Chancellor’s measures leave us well prepared to tackle its short-term challenges as well as helping to shape the long-term trajectory of the economy.
Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.
Ministers have been asked to push the Government’s priorities – tackling crime, funding the NHS, “levelling up”. How can these be effected without faster growth?
The new Chancellor should stick to the basics of cutting taxes, spending more on education and rebalancing growth outside of London.
He’s a respected, experienced former Chief Whip – without the baggage of having sat around the Cabinet table during the past three years.
Universities have generally had an excellent decade, but the rest of the system has not. It’s time to correct the imbalance.
Many of these institutions claim to be “safe spaces”. Not if you voted Conservative, though.