1. When asked: what is the biggest educational issue students’ face in Reading? What should be MPs priority with regards to education?
A national financial protection scheme to ensure that students studies are not discrupted by a crisis in their… Higher maintenance loans for university students Asylum seekers with conditional leave to remain as home students for financial purposes Regulations for educational institutions owned or supported by for-profit companies Scrap 24+ Fees an loans for college students Restore As-level resits and modular learning Protect students rights to independent student' union represenation Improve and protect disabled students allowance Create a new and better educational maintenance allowance A better funding system for postgraduate study Phase out tuition fees and restore public funding to universities and colleges 0
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2. When asked; What are the biggest issues students face regarding work Reading? What should be MPs priority with regards to student employment? Provide non- EU students with the right to work in the UK non- restricted for 12 months after study
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Commitment to the living wage
Help young people set up their own businesses by setting up a national enterprise scheme Statutory code of practise on zero hour contracts Funding sustainability as part of apprenticeship training Raising the apprentice minimum wage to the national minimmn wage All work experience over 4 weeks should be paid the national minimum wage The government to fund an independent careers advisory service integrated across all schools, colleges abnd… All companies whhich have a contract with the government to deliver services must by contract create a… Guarantee of paid work or training for every person who is out of work between the age of 16-24
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3. When asked; what is the biggest issue for students within the Reading community and in the wider UK community? What should be MPs priority with regards to helping students feel like they are a valued part of a community in Reading and a valued citizen in the UK?
Stop attacking international students with net… Scrap letting agents fees Removal of unnecessary police stop and search… Free bus travel from ages 16-19 Stop cuts to the NHS Citizenship and sex education Funding for youth services Votes at 16 Elected governement represenatives to be kicked out… Repeal of the lobbying act 0
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