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The Proposed National Education Service is a 'unified National Education Service (NES) for England to move towards cradle-to-grave learning that is free at the point of use', proposed by the Labour Party in their manifesto for the 2017 general election. [1] The National Education Service was again included in the Labour Party's manifesto for the 2019 General Election.
... Labour will create a unified National Education Service (NES) for England to move towards cradle-to-grave learning that is free at the point of use. The NES will be built on the principle that ‘Every Child – and Adult Matters’ and will incorporate all forms of education, from early years through to adult education.
The National Education Service is being to ensure opportunities for life-long learning are available to meet both of the core aims of education: personal education and education for employment.
While early Labour Party statements have suggested that the NES would be "free at the point of use", as the details of the service are developed it is likely to that this statement will be taken to apply to what is identified as entitlement for all up to the age of 18 and that a variety of funding strategies will apply post-18. For example, where there are national priorities for retraining, such training could be free at the point of use by those who are retraining. Where post-18 education is for personal fulfilment rather than national skill shortages, a charge would be expected.
The labour party believes this is an example of how scholarships for post-18 education could be used to signal to prospective students what the national skill shortages are. In England, it is believed by labour, that the current approach to the school system means that government has limited options to ensure the curriculum offered to students post 16 meets national priorities.
In both university and school systems, it is believed by labour, an unforeseen consequence has been that the school and university leaders have managed to negotiate salaries which are considered high, which has led to publishing of salary league tables.
The education sector is divided into these phases.
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All phases are subject to quality assurance and monitoring through independent inspection through OFSTED or QAA, as they are currently for all phases with the exception of workplace training.
A team of 16 experts were appointed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to the Lifelong Learning Commission in February 2019. This commission was intended to focus on expanding and transforming lifelong learning as a key component of the NES. The commission was led by Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Further Education and Skills, Gordon Marsden and Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Angela Rayner. The commission was launched in a speech given by Jeremy Corbyn to the Make UK/EEF (manufacturers' association) annual conference in London's QEII centre on 19 February 2019. [2] [3]
Membership of the commission comprised:
Co-Chair – Estelle Morris, former education secretary
Co-chair – Dave Ward, general secretary, Communication Workers Union
Alison Fuller – Professor – Vocational Education and Work, UCL
Seamus Nevin – Chief Economist, Make UK
Ewart Keep – Director of Centre for Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, Oxford University
Mary Kellett – Vice-Chancellor, Open University
Graeme Atherton – Director of the National Education Opportunities Network
Joyce Black – Assistant Director, R&D, Learning and Work Institute
Amatey Doku – Vice President Higher Education, National Union of Students
Kirstie Donnelly – Managing Director, City and Guilds
Vicky Duckworth – Professor in Education, Edge Hill University
David Latchman – Master of Birkbeck
Dave Phoenix – Vice-Chancellor, London South Bank University
Carole Stott – Former Chair of the Board and Trust, Association of Colleges
Matt Waddup – National Head Of Policy & Campaigns – University and College Union
Tom Wilson – Chair of UFI, Former Head of Unionlearn. [4]
The Commission's findings and proposals were announced during the launch of Labour's education manifesto for the 2019 UK General Election, in Blackpool on 12 November 2019. [5]
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