As party conference season continues, read a breakdown of the debates and discussions related to education and social mobility at the Conservative Party Conference by our Communications, Research and Policy Assistant, Georgia Carter.
This autumn the Sutton Trust will be attending all three major party conferences, and we’ll be blogging throughout, discussing each parties’ announcements on education and social mobility.
This week the Conservative party conference took place in Manchester with education a major focus of the Prime Minister’s keynote speech.
Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, pledged to continue to improve school standards and educational pathway choices, underlining her mission to change the way apprenticeships are viewed and her aim for them to be available for all students and all professions in the future, as an alternative to university. This is welcome but is a tall order, requiring substantial investment as well as considerable effort by both business and universities. While the big policy announcements were saved for the Prime Minister’s speech, she did announce that the government will consult on introducing minimum service levels in universities and that they will be publishing new guidance on banning mobile phone use in schools.
