Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (Lab - Liverpool, Walton) and can get the help they require? - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) provide places for local students, who are 13% less likely to take a place at a university in Scotland - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Students at St Leonard’s School in Durham are working hard for their exams, but they are facing sustained - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) But for some, in a minority of cases, it will be a ticket to nowhere, saddling students with debt and - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) I welcome measures in the King’s Speech to regenerate our town centres. - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) Higher exam pass rates increased from 71.7% in 2007 to 80.3% in 2022. - Speech Link
4: Kim Leadbeater (Lab - Batley and Spen) The loss of these precious public buildings and services would have a severe impact on local families - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) You are probably preparing for exams and coping with the stress of being a teenager, but at the same - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) children require to better themselves for potential apprenticeships, further study and employment. - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (LAB - Streatham) White Paper, and the power to direct all schools to accept local children. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) While many of them may well be being home-educated quite well by their parents, there could be many others - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) A quarter of them are commuter students travelling from home. - Speech Link
2: Helen Grant (CON - Maidstone and The Weald) University students are adults in law, but they are often living away from home for the first time in - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) and accept that duty of care, and indeed for the Government to impose it on them. - Speech Link
4: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) These are centres of excellence whose work I want to see replicated across the piece. - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) They are rightly calling for students to be better protected when they leave home for the first time - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) That home-educated children should be enabled to take exams has been a long-running problem and ought - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) This amendment would guarantee that home-educated pupils had a place at which to sit their national exams - Speech Link
3: None Turning to Amendments 77 and 78, we of course want home-educated children to be able to access exams - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) Children such as Kieran should have access to remote exams but most exam centres do not permit remote - Speech Link
2: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) not electively home educated and who therefore should be in the direct care of the local authority, - Speech Link
3: Lord Soley (LAB - Life peer) to sit exams under local authority procedures, or whatever, the costs for those families who are not - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) If a child is not in education and is not being electively home educated, the local authority needs to - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (CON - Sleaford and North Hykeham) In that regard, I support calls for more medical students and more nursing students. - Speech Link
2: Yvonne Fovargue (LAB - Makerfield) , drove 30 miles to work because there was no suitable public transport, did a day’s work, drove home - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (CON - Aylesbury) For too many of us, it took too long to be able to do that: too long to accept ourselves for who we are - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (LAB - Nottingham South) She told me that“my daughter came home from school worried because she had a cookery exam and didn’t - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) The Government want exams to go ahead, which I agree with, but 13,000 children in a critical exam year - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) to log in and learn from home. - Speech Link
3: Flick Drummond (CON - Meon Valley) They are being taught to the test and how to pass them, rather than being educated. - Speech Link
4: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) Parentkind has shown that exam stress remains a top anxiety for students and that serious mental health - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) They would be able to seek a pay-out from universities, seeking to cash in on public money—students’ - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (LAB - Nottingham South) Being home to more than 50,000 students sometimes puts pressure on our city’s local services or gives - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) There was exam chaos last year, and students worry that they will see the same repeated again this year - Speech Link
4: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) It cannot be sensible to require providers to act unreasonably or to ignore their other legal duties. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) able to provide online learning, with the more deprived students having less space to study at home. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I accept that there are many pressures that require immediate government attention to remedy inequality - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Hard work from young people, ranging from local infants classes to the students of Freeman College and - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (LAB - Life peer) For secondary schools, a first good step by the Government would be to limit payments to the exam boards - Speech Link
5: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) to put a plan in place for this year’s exams until only weeks before they were due to go ahead. - Speech Link