The Labour manifesto sets out plans to\u00a0guarantee all young people in schools face-to-face careers advice\u00a0\u00a0and support for the transition\u00a0from school to work.<\/p>\n
It seems that this will cost \u00a350m per year. \u00a0This is not new money; nor will it come from the existing schools budget (which is guaranteed). \u00a0It will come from the funds in university budgets set aside for bursaries to help young people from poorer families go to university. \u00a0Tristram Hunt<\/a>, Labour's point man on schools, is reported as saying:<\/p>\n \"What we're essentially doing is putting those funds upstream so young people get the advice earlier, at secondary schools about their options.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It's\u00a0this kind of sophistry that an expensive school education can buy you. \u00a0The gist seems to be this: poor students who used to get cash (actually a real discount on a notional fee) will have a chunk\u00a0of that exchanged for advice (whether they need\u00a0it or not). \u00a0Somebody else will get the cash (which is actually money notionally paid by other students as fees). \u00a0Apparently this is \"progressive politics\".<\/p>\n Those Vice Chancellors who can spot the thin end of a very considerable wedge at half a mile are not happy. \u00a0Meanwhile, the VC's trade body, Universities UK<\/a>, is seeking clarification, and heeding long-standing advice<\/a>\u00a0not to be making\u00a0new enemies at a tricky time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Labour manifesto sets out plans to\u00a0guarantee all young people in schools face-to-face careers advice\u00a0\u00a0and support for the transition\u00a0from school to work. It seems that this will cost \u00a350m per year. \u00a0This is not new money; nor will it come...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}