Labour will scrap predicted grades to make university admissions fairer
Angela Rayner
Students should apply for higher education courses once they have their A-level results, writes Labour MP Angela Rayner
April 2018
First thoughts
Cut youth services and violent crime will rise – is that really so hard to see?
Polly Toynbee
The causes of a spike in crime are complex, but savaging Sure Starts, EMA and child tax credits was always going to come at a cost, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
June 2015
Further education leadership and management
Further education provides a lifeline. But try telling the government that
John Harris
The gilded cage of Westminster appears to regard FE colleges and the skills they offer as irrelevant. To cut would be both destructive and counterproductive
April 2015
Schools' hidden funding crisis: teachers take drastic action as cuts hit hard
The big issue Each day this week we are looking at the key election battleground issues. With education facing a 12% cut in real terms, subjects are being axed, class sizes rising and job losses loom – but the parties are failing to address it
November 2014
Guardian Students
Robbed of their futures: how austerity cuts hit young people hardest
As students round the country prepare for a national anti-austerity protest, we look at the way government cost-cutting is targeting the young
February 2014
Zita Holbourne: fighting austerity's bigger impact on black and minority ethnic people
Zita Holbourne tells Mary O'Hara that she co-founded the anti-austerity organisation Barac to highlight how welfare reforms and cuts to public services disproportionately affect black people
December 2013
Guardian Students
Vulnerable students losing out on grant money, say charities
Children's charities call for school bursaries for the most disadvantaged pupils to rise with inflation
November 2013
The British are actively hostile towards young people
Suzanne Moore
Suzanne Moore: Politicians worry about the youth vote, but the catastrophe is that we have disempowered a whole generation
October 2013
Anti-austerity group fighting cuts urges students to attend London rally
Students' Assembly Against Austerity seeks to move NUS to the left and mobilise students as a more effective political force
May 2013
Guardian Students
The NUS president who's never been to uni
When Toni Pearce becomes NUS president July, college students and youth unemployment will be top of her agenda
April 2013
David Willetts, poor students need hard cash, not a silly letter
Barbara Ellen
Barbara Ellen: The universities minister's plan to encourage bright, disadvantaged pupils is patronising and misses the point
February 2013
Blogging students
Students urge MPs to restore EMA grant
Campaign aims to reverse Tory decision to scrap the EMA grant that kept poorer students in education post-16
November 2012
Guardian Students
NUS warns of 'epidemic of dropouts'
Two in five undergrads are considering quitting over concerns about debt and poor job prospects, survey shows
Students to protest over funding cuts and employment prospects
Organisers expect 10,000 demonstrators in London, but say event will have a broader focus than marches two years ago
Guardian Students
Bring back student grant, campaigners demand
Matt Stanley
Ahead of next week's NUS protest march, student leader Matt Stanley explains why they're calling for the return of the EMA
October 2012
News and resources round up
Teacher's guide to EMA and social mobility: news and resources round up
Higher education: smoothing the path
Lynsey Hanley
Politics blog
Energy price row and MPs' expenses - Thursday 18 October
Coalition's child poverty adviser: bring back EMA
September 2012
An exam that will define failure, not success
Letters: For the first time this country had a qualification which gave credit to students' achievements rather than defining most students as failures
About 103 results for Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
