Debate Pack
This page contains a Library briefing, links to press articles and parliamentary questions for background to the Westminster Hall debate, Government policy on support for pupils with English as an additional language, scheduled for Tuesday 23 June 2015.
Research Briefing
UK higher education institutions have a statutory duty to uphold freedom of speech in their institutions as far as is practical within the law. This duty has come under pressure recently from the Government’s Prevent Strategy and provisions in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. This note sets out legislation in this area and gives an overview of debate.
Research Briefing
This book examines the key issues facing the House of Commons over the course of the 2015 Parliament - from the public finances to the UK’s membership of the EU and from school places for children to climate change.
Research Briefing
This note sets out the financial support available to students in England starting undergraduate and graduate degrees in medicine in 2014/15 and 2015/16.
Research Briefing
This note give an overview of the post-2012 higher education tuition fee system, it sets out the different fee arrangement across the UK and outlines the policies of political parties with regard to tuition fees.
Research Briefing
This note collates the public commitments regarding schools policy in England made by the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP and Green Party.
Research Briefing
Since 1986 block grant funding for university researrch has been selectively distributed to institutions using data obtained in some form of research assessment process. Results of the most recent process - the Research Excellence Framework (REF) were announced in December 2014. This note discusses the REF and issues around it.
Research Briefing
What children should be taught about sex and relationships, by whom and when, is a matter of persistent political debate. There are currently two Private Member’s Bills before Parliament on the subject, as well as an Education Committee inquiry in progress. The matter was raised during the passage of the recent Children and Families Act
Research Briefing
This is a report on the House of Commons Committee stage of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill.
Research Briefing
New students starting higher education in England in 2012 faced higher tuition fees, potentially higher loan interest rates and longer loan durations. The Government has also introducing a new ‘core and margin’ model which introduces an element of competition into the allocation of student numbers between institutions. The impact of these changes on potential students and student numbers is seen as one key test of the success of the Government’s reforms to higher education in England. The number of new fell in 2012 as it did when fees were first introduced and then raised in the past. Any long term change to student numbers would also have important implications for the financial health of the higher education sector and the UK economy.
Research Briefing
This note gives an overview of the growth in the private higher education sector since 2011; it discusses the controversy around the provision of student support for students at private higher education institutions and the introduction of student number controls at private institutions.
Research Briefing
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will receive its Second Reading in the House of Commons on 16 July 2014.
Research Briefing
This note gives a brief overview of the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) and outlines proposed changes to the grant
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