According to a proposal by Nick Clegg, a new student premium is planned to be launched that would provide financial assistance to all students who get free school meals.
Under the programme created to enhance social movement, all students from financially backward families would receive an amount of 25,000 pounds annually to assist them in getting through their college education.
This scheme is expected to be declared by the deputy Prime Minister on Tuesday during his talks on the country’s plans to enhance the standards of those below the poverty line.
This initiative was a result of the censure of the Liberal Democratic head soon after the tuition fees was hiked three fold against his party’s policy.
In a report by The Guardian it was stated that the student premium will be promised to any child who is on free school meals in secondary school, and who gets through the English Baccalaureate and receives an offer of a seat in any of the Universities.
A student would be able to know a minimum of two years ahead of his applying to a university whether the premium mentioned would be made available to assist them, on condition that they make certain grades. It is stated that the financial help could be a wavier in fees or a subsidy.
A list of the ‘social mobility indicators’ created to keep a tab on the advances made by poor students would be published by the government on Tuesday and this would be a guide to the prospective decisions that would be taken on education, employment and health in the years to come.
Talking before making the declaration the previous day, Mr. Clegg stated that the power of the private education in the country did not bode well for society.
He stated that privately educated children had three times more chances to attain good grades like two As and B at A-level, which was the requisite grades for a lot of the top class universities when compared with the grades made by the students in state run schools.
It was found that the differences in the results from schools of various types were greater than practically any other in Britain developed nation.
Mr. Clegg who himself was educated in a private school, the West Minister School in Central London remarked that education was vital for their anticipations for a more just society.
However, he stated that as of then there was a big gap in their system of education even among their beast schools most of which were private and the institutions that the more commonplace families depended on.
He stated that it did not augur well for their society and at the same time it was injurious for the country’s economy.
He stated that he did not in any way malign or blame parents who wanted their child to have the best education and as a result select the moist ideal and best school for them. He said that in fact it was that it was the ambition to give their children the beast that was one of the most valued components of being a parent.
At the same time, he said that they country needed to make certain that their system of schooling was something that promoted equality as well as mobility.
These remarks followed just a couple of weeks after the Education Secretary Mr. Michael Gove had said that the levels of societal differences in the schools in Britain were ethically vulnerable. He commented that public schools were greatly over-amplified in politics, among the judiciary, banking sectors and the boardrooms of FTSE 100.
However Mr. Gove maintained that there was also proof f the influence of independent education on businesses like acting, comedy, sport and music, where there were more young adults who were in the early twenties or younger.
About seven percent of the students from state schools were able to attain AAB grades in their A-level in the previous year as against the 23.1 percent of the students from private schools.
International surveys showed that the difference in achieving these grades between teenagers hailing from private and state run schools was the fourth highest across the globe.
While talking to the Sutton Trust on Tuesday, Mr. Clegg would give a clear outline of the plans for a completely new set of pointers that can evaluate the effect of governmental policies that have been created to better societal mobility. These measures would also consist of appraisal of the number of deprived students who would be eligible to achieve excellent grades in their A-levels.
This is over and above the launch of the student premium which is a cash prize for those schools teaching deprived kids. The current year the head teachers would get 488 pounds for every kid who qualified for free school meals and this would be raised to 600 pounds in the academic year 2012-2013.
