Education costs

• Councillor Under Fire After Claiming Pounds 5,896 Travel Costs ; Education Counterparts in Wales Reimbursed Far Less

A COUNCILLOR has been criticised for claiming thousands of pounds in expenses travelling to and from council offices. Huw George, Pembrokeshire council's long-serving cabinet member for education, claimed travel costs of pounds 5,896.35 between April 2010 and April 2012.

• Western Mail
• August 04, 2012

• 'Free' Education That Costs Over Eur 1k a Year [Eire Region]

THE cost of sending a child to a 'free' school has topped EUR 1,200 a year for the first time. Families are being forced to borrow heavily to pay for uniforms, sports gear, books, after-school activities, travel costs and basic supplies.

• Daily Mail
• July 15, 2011

• Fewer Teens Are Staying in School Post-16 - but Girls Less Likelyk to Leave Education, Study Finds ; Figures Suggest University Costs Putting Year-13s 3 Off

THE number of teenagers continuing in school and college beyond compulsory education has fallen, according to Wales' a careers service. A survey of 64,605 secondary schools pupils found that 84.6% of Year 11s chose to stay on after their GCSEs in 2012 - compared with 85.1% in 2011.

• Western Mail
• April 18, 2013

• Mp Questioned by Students On Education Costs

UNIVERSITY students gave an MP a grilling over tuition fees. Mid- Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham attended a Question Time-style event at the University of Derby to discuss the issues surrounding access to higher education. On the cross-party panel with Mrs Latham was Councillor Paul Bayliss, University of Derby pro-vice Chancellor Professor Liz Barnes, a youth parliament delegate and a member of student union.

• Derby Evening Telegraph
• October 08, 2011

• Report Says Poor Financial Education Costs Uk Pound(S)3.4bn

POOR financial education is costing the UK around pound(s)3.4 billion a year, according to a report out today. The cost to the taxpayer of subsidising people who have not saved enough for their retirement could be slashed by one-third if more was done to combat "financial illiteracy", the study for consumer help website MoneySavingExpert said.

• The Herald
• December 13, 2012

• Education Costs Met

A ZIMBABWEAN schoolgirl can complete her education thanks to the generosity of her Birmingham friends. Pete Foley, a primary school teacher at Corpus Christi School in Stechford, Birmingham, collected pounds 860, to enable Kundai , 11, to complete her schooling, but needed an extra pounds 140. He then contacted his friend Paul King, who successfully urged his city- based employers, Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) to make up the shortfall.

• Birmingham Mail
• September 11, 2010

• ; Next Week Will Mark the 75th Anniversary of the Jarrow Crusade. Original Crusaders in Their Fight for Jobs.

IT was a protest about crippling unemployment. And 75 years on, people will retrace the Jarrow March to fight for the right to a job. Today scores of young protesters, angry at rising education costs and a lack of jobs, will march from Jarrow to London like the 200 unemployed men from the town did back in 1936.

• Evening Chronicle
• October 01, 2011

• Students Fall Victim to Pounds 500k Blackhole ; Fears Funding for Education Will Go On Building Costs

SCHOOL governors today claimed they could be forced to divert money away from pupils' education to pay for a Pounds 500,000 shortfall for work on their school building. Students and staff at Holden Lane High, in Sneyd Green, are set to move into their new Pounds 10.9 million building at the end of this year.

• Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK)
• February 05, 2013

• Cash Demand Puts Scheme in Jeopardy ; a Major New Housing Development Could Have Been Jeopardised by a Demand That the Developers Cough Up Nearly Half-a-Million Pounds Towards Education Costs.

A major new housing development could have been jeopardised by a demand that the developers cough up nearly half-a-million pounds towards education costs. Teignbridge planning officers agreed a deal with the firm proposing to build 96 homes at Bovey Tracey for a contribution of pounds1,853 per unit towards education in the area.

• Herald Express; Torquay (UK)
• November 14, 2007

• Schoolkids' Kit 'Rip-Off' Costs Pounds 52m ; Education

PARENTS forced to buy school uniforms from exclusive suppliers are being ripped off by Pounds 52million, watchdogs say. The Office of Fair Trading found 75% of state schools insisted on badged items in school colours only stocked in specialist outlets.

• Daily Mirror
• October 26, 2012