Education was in eighth, perhaps reflecting the resilience of the system to keep going in the face of multiple challenges.1 In this second report we provide an independent, evidence-based assessment of the extent to which each of the main parties have committed to meeting the challenges in the system in the run up to the July 4 general election. [...] Both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives have commitments that are based on per pupil funding to schools (to protect in the case of the Conservatives and to increase above inflation for the Liberal Democrats). [...] On a positive note, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have identified the requirement for high-quality continuing professional development to increase the quality of the workforce and the level of qualification of teachers, both of which have knock-on effects on pupil outcomes. [...] The Department for Education estimates that the pupil population will fall by 626,000 by the end of the decade, returning pupil numbers to a similar level to that seen prior to the post-millennium population bulge.49 The number of primary aged pupils is already in decline and the number of pupils in secondary schools is expected to peak this year. [...] Students will also have the opportunity to realise the benefits of a broadened curriculum while the proposal will attempt to close the gap in parity of esteem between academic and technical education by rolling A levels and T levels into a single qualification.95 To guarantee the success of the ABS, there will need to be significant changes to the workforce and more detail on whether students will.
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Table of Contents
- General Election 2024 1
- About the Education Policy Institute 2
- Contents 3
- Foreword 4
- Executive summary 6
- Early years 15
- Early years 16
- School organisation and outcomes 26
- School organisation and outcomes 27
- Post-16 and higher education 39
- Post-16 and higher education 40
- School and college funding 52
- School and college funding 53
- The education workforce 62
- The education workforce 63
- Annex 69
- Annex New analysis in this report 70
- Primary Secondary 71
- Pupil count 71
- Year-on- 71
- Year- 71
