Education is about giving people the tools to build their lives into whatever they want that life to be. It should be a right not a privilege for those who can afford it!
Full free life-long education for all:
Restore all cuts made in school funding during the years of austerity politics and increase funding, paid for by taxes on the rich.
All education should be free for all. With a robust programme of maintenance grants for those that need them to be able to study, after the statutory minimum school leaving age, parental contribution should not be required for state sector education at any level.
Tuition fees should be abolished and all student debt should be cancelled in full. There should be free high quality school meals for all, including optional breakfast clubs, at every level of education below the statutory minimum school leaving age .
Take profit out of education:
We call for the end of commercialisation of education and the use of any publicly funded educational research facilities for the development of weapons or in connection to developing any polluting technology.
Reform all private education:
We call for the abolition of the entire academy system and the ending of tax relief and charitable status for any and all private educational organisations.