News on the topic of Education and skills

£10m to boost literacy for year sevens

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today announced up to £10m additional support for pupil premium children who leave primary school without Level 4 literacy.

Mon, 14/05/2012

Delivering Education’s Progressive Promise: Using the Pupil Premium to Change Lives

Nick Clegg: “The Pupil Premium creates a new way to bring parents in and start a meaningful conversation that can last for that child’s entire school life.”

Mon, 14/05/2012

Deputy Prime Minister speech to the National Manufacturing Summit

Nick Clegg: “So the question for us, it seems to me, is how are we going to encourage a new generation of manufacturers?”

Thu, 23/02/2012

A message for National Apprenticeship Week

"We, as a country, need to put apprenticeships right at the heart of how we educate and train people"

Fri, 03/02/2012

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – DPM attends launch

Nick Clegg attends launch of a new £1 million global award for engineering.

Thu, 17/11/2011

Consultation launched on free early education

The Deputy Prime Minister and Children’s Minister Sarah Teather today set out plans to extend free early education to 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds.

Fri, 11/11/2011

Childcare support will be paid to around 80,000 more households

Childcare support will be paid to around 80,000 more households.

Fri, 07/10/2011

Fair and free - every child must be able to do better

New measures to ensure that access to high quality education is fair for all were announced today by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Mon, 05/09/2011

Deputy Prime Minister's speech on education

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has given a speech on education at Southfields Community College, Wandsworth.

Mon, 05/09/2011

Government vows to get the young into work

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Prime Minister David Cameron have set out the Coalition Government’s commitment to getting more vulnerable young people into work.

Thu, 12/05/2011

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