Wales election issue guide 2016: Education
- Published
Parties listed alphabetically
A national 10% pay premium for teachers with extra skills or qualifications
Pay £18,000 worth of debt for graduates who work in Wales instead of tuition fee grants for all students
30 hours a week full-time early education by 2021
Use Wales' share of the apprenticeship levy money to create an additional 50,000 apprenticeships
Secondary schools given the opportunity to develop into grammars or vocational schools
Introduce University Technical Colleges based on the Baker-Deering model
Introduce statutory modern foreign language teaching from age seven
Replace tuition fee grants with loans for students studying in England, but fees would end in Wales for science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical students
Create a free, universal early education and childcare service from birth to the start of formal education
Raise the starting age of formal education
End the programme of school closures
Welsh universities will charge no fees to students from Wales
Fund schools directly, giving greater control to teachers, parents and governors, and directing more money to the classroom
Prevent the closure of any school which delivers the national curriculum, without agreement of parents and governors
Replace student tuition fees grants with a rent rebate, providing undergraduates with support for up-front costs
Treble free childcare to 30 hours a week
£100m fund to boost school standards
30 hours free childcare a week for 48 weeks of the year
100,000 new apprenticeships for all ages
Pilot a new model of Community Learning Centres
Reduce infant class sizes to 25
Expand the Pupil Premium - extra cash for schools with disadvantaged children
End tuition fee grants and use the money to fund student living support grant worth between £2,000 and £3,000
Ten hours a week of free childcare from end of paid parental leave until child is three
