Students protest over axed EMA support allowance

Joanne98

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Jan-18-11 09:25 AM
Original message

Students protest over axed EMA support allowance

Source: BBC

School and college students are holding protests at campuses around England against the scrapping of the EMA study support grant.

The protests come a day before MPs are due to vote on a Labour motion calling on the government to rethink its plan.

The government says the allowances of up to £30 a week for low-income students aged 16-19 are wasteful.

But a college lecturers union said 70% of the poorest students would drop out if it was cut.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12216285

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

dipsydoodle

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Jan-18-11 10:13 AM
Response to Original message

1. The main background to the EMA

was New Labour's way of encouraging kids to stay at school a further 2 years to do A Levels and in doing so suppress the total unemployed figure. Looks like if the Cons do do this then the unemployed figure will go through the roof.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Sat May 04th 2024, 06:00 AM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.