Schools
(asked on 12th September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many schools are part of (1) maths hubs, (2) careers hubs, and (3) modern foreign languages hubs.
The following table provides the budget for 35 maths hubs across England between 2016-17 and 2021-22.
| 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
Maths hubs | £14 million | £19 million | £23 million | £30 million | £6 million | £9 million |
Since the start of the Teaching for Mastery programme in 2016 approximately 2,900 schools have taken part in the programme with a further 2,700 starting in the 2018/19 academic year.
The department announced on 3 August that there will be £4.8 million funding for the modern foreign languages (MFL) hubs programme, over the next four years. We expect that this will be broken down as follows:
| 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
MFL hubs | £700,000 | £1.2 million | £1.2 million | £1.2 million | £500,000 |
The MFL hubs programme will pilot an approach to raising the standard of teaching in modern foreign languages by taking forward the recommendations made in the Teaching Schools Council Modern Foreign Languages Pedagogy Review[1], which was led by head teacher and linguist Ian Bauckham.
By the end of the pilot, in 2023, at least 400 schools will have received direct support from the MFL hubs.
The government’s careers strategy committed £5 million of funding for The Careers & Enterprise Company to set up 20 new careers hubs across the country to test the model piloted in the North East to improve progress against the Gatsby Benchmarks, in addition to continuing to support the work of the original pilot hub in the North East. This will be broken down as follows:
| 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
Careers hubs | £2.6 million | £2.4 million |
In addition, 10 of the new careers hubs will also receive a share of £1.25 million to spend on careers activities spread across both years.
The hubs will start their work from September 2018 and are funded to run for two academic years until July 2020. The 20 new hubs and the expanded North East Hub will cover 700 schools and colleges in total.
[1] For further information regarding the work of this review please see the following webpage: https://www.tscouncil.org.uk/modern-foreign-languages-report/.