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How much extra cash is being pledged to education?

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£14 billion - thats £150 million a week.

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Which areas will receive the biggest increase in education spending?

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Areas which are historically underfunded.

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How much will a secondary school pupil receive from next year?

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At least £5,000

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How much will a primary school child receive by 2021-2022?

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£4,000

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How much extra cash will further education receive?

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£400 million

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What will happen to schools who are rated outstanding?

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They will continue to get regular checks to ensure standards are maintained.

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How has literacy fared under the Conservatives?

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England has risen in international literacy tables to 8th in the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. Up from 10th in 2011, and a historic low of 19th under Labour.

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How much will be invested into Behaviour Hubs?

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£10 million

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What is special about the Conservatives’ teacher pay reform?

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It’s the biggest in a generation

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What will happen to salaries for new teachers?

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Increased to £30,000 by 2022-2023

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What will the Conservatives do to allow headteachers to focus their resources on the front line?

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Increase government contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

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What have we pledged for SEN children?

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£780 million to help support them. Deliver more school places for children with complex SEN needs.

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Under this government, what has happened to the % of children passing their primary school reading check?

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Risen by 30% (52% to 82%).

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What will the government’s approach to bullying?

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Strengthened teachers’ powers to deal with bullying and disruptive behaviour, particularly homophobic bullying. Back the use of exclusions by headteachers.

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What will the government’s approach to teachers’ salaries?

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We are raising the starting salary to £30,000 so it is among the most competitive in the graduate labour market.

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What will the government’s approach to Ofsted?

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It serves a valuable purpose in not just improving standards, but in improving behaviour.

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What will the government’s approach to innovation in schools?

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We will support innovative schools, such as maths schools.

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What will the government’s approach to exclusions?

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Back headteachers who exclude pupils. Expand ‘alternative provision’ schools for those who have been excluded.

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What will the government’s approach to free schools?

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More free schools

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What will the government’s approach to the arts in schools?

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Offer an ‘arts premium’ to secondary schools to fund enriching activities for all pupils.

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What will the government’s approach to PE?

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Invest in primary school PE teaching and ensure it is being properly delivered. Promote physical literacy and competitive sport. Make sure schools are making good use of their sports facilities.

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What is the government’s approach to free school meals?

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Maintain a commitment to providing them/

23
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How are we helping mental health provision in schools?

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As of September 2019 we introduced mental health training. This is to be rolled out over the next 4 years. Training will begin in areas with Mental Health Support Teams first, who will provide training for teachers.
We’re also providing £9.3 million to organise workshops which bring education and NHS staff together to raise awareness of dealing with mental. This will be available to all schools in the next 4 years.

Mandatory health education lessons from 2020, teaching of the benefits of healthy lifestyles, building mental resilience, and how to recognise common signs of mental illness and how to cope with it.

Investing £300 million over the next 3 years to deliver the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper.

24
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Where is the requirement for teachers’ pensions being financed from?

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Outside of the education budget, so the extra £14 billion will go straight into our schools.

25
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How did the British education system do in the PISA league tables under Labour?

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We plummeted from 7th to 25th in reading, 8th to 28th in maths, and 4th to 16th in science.

26
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Labour’s policy to introduce VAT on private schools would add how much to annual private school fees?

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Parents could be charged up to £3,000 annually in VAT alone, and closer to £6,600 for boarders.

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How much money would private schools lose if Labour removed their business rate discount?

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Over 1,300 schools would lose around £500 million in tax. This money should be spent on children’s education.

28
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How much would it cost to integrate private schools into the state sector?

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£7 billion.

29
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How many parent out of 10 think Ofsted is a force for improvement?

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6 out of 10

30
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Why is Labour’s plan to remove Ofsted a bad idea?

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Recent cases, like Rotherham, have shown that local authorities regulating themselves is not a good idea.

It would lead to 152 different systems, making it impossible to compare schools and make the right choices for children.

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Why is removing Labour’s plan to remove SATs a bad idea?

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It would weaken standards in school and make it harder for parents and schools to evaluate the education of their children.

32
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What happened to the number of pupils sitting EBacc subjects under Labour?

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1997 - 50% of pupils sat the EBacc (English, Maths and Sciences).

2010 - 22%

The Wolf Report 2011 found that universities were offering basic maths classes to students to make up for the gaps in their knowledge.

33
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What has been the effect of our phonics reform?

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163,000 more 6-year-olds are on track to become fluent readers compared to 2012.

34
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How are we planning to overtake Germany as the best provider of technical education?

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£120 million for new specialist institutes.

We have already opened 12 Institutes of Technology, to be expanded to 20. Establishing them in ‘cold spots’ that currently lack provision.

We already made £170 million available for them.

Move welcomed by the CBI.

35
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What is Labour’s stance on technical education?

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Labour oppose our plans for new Institutes of Technology

36
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What is our track record on good and outstanding schools?

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2010 - 66%

2019 - 85%

37
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How will we improve Ofsted?

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£10 million additional funding to back Ofsted. This money will support the training and deployment of more inspectors.

Longer inspections to be sure of the full breadth of a school’s activity. We will Increase the length of inspections in secondary schools and large primary schools from two to three days – with the extra day focused on behaviour, bullying and the school’s extra-curricular offer including sport and Physical Education.

We will pilot a ‘no-notice’ inspection scheme where the requirement to notify schools at lunchtime the day before is waived.

We will change the rules so that outstanding schools are also subject to routine inspections.

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What will we do about NCS?

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Support it, promote it in schools.

39
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How will we improve employment outcomes for young people?

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The Youth Futures Foundation will invest at least £90 million into improving employment outcomes for young people.

40
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How much will we invest in youth funds and services?

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£500 million

41
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How much will we spent on upgrading the entire further education college estate?

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£2 billion

42
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What will we do about the Augar Review?

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We will consider its recommendations on tuition fee levels, the balance of funding between universities, further education and apprenticeships, and adult learning.

43
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What will we do about interest rates on loan repayments for university students?

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Look at them with a view of reducing the burden of debt on students.

44
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What will we do about grade inflation in universities?

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Continue to explore ways to tackle it.

45
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What will we do about low quality university courses?

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Continue to explore ways to tackle them.

46
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What will we do about the undergraduate application and offer system?

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Look at ways to improve it.

47
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What freedoms will we strengthen at universities?

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Academic freedom and the freedom of speech.

48
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What will we do about university and colleges’ civic roles?

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Invest in local adult education.

49
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What will we make the Office for Students look at?

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Increasing access across all ages, not just young people entering full-time undergraduate degrees.

50
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What have we done for building schools?

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A new ten year school building programme. £1bn for the first 50 schools.

51
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In 2020, what pay rise did teachers receive?

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3.1% - equivalent of £1,250 more for the average teacher

52
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Since 2010, how many more teachers are there?

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12,000

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