Peter Cross OBE

@JeffFisch @zedz145795 The morons are always with us. 😉

@zedz145795 Huh? I was just in Kyiv last week. How about you, tough guy?

So why is this coward tough guy hiding on the net and not in the front lines if he wants death so badly for others???

@mdbuckley Rather similar to the approach to the independent sector.

It’s a tragedy that we are allowing our universities and research capacity to wither due to lack of funding and a determined effort to deter international students. Good jobs are being lost. Once lost, capacity will be hard to rebuild. To what benefit? ft.com/content/ded7df…

@PatCros21137087 @Brick_Cop @ukhomeoffice Hear hear.

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@joe90kane @Normanjam67 Got to love a comment with a Saltire and some foreign flag.

@joe90kane @Normanjam67 Like they are doing with independent schools.

The financialisation of education was one of the worst mistakes this country has ever made. An educated population makes the country a better place. Only those who want to control you want you uneducated.

@anaboultertv Think he might have regretted this one!

This man has NO idea. Literally none: awkward.

@PreetKGillMP @edgbastonCLP @harbornelabour @BartleyGreenRed @QuintonLabour @WMLabour @BrumLabour That’s amazing. Works out at £2 a family on £200. She must be so proud.

The Chancellor has announced the Great British Summer Savings Scheme, cutting VAT from 20% to 5% on tickets for fairs, theme parks, zoos, museums and more. Also applies to children’s meals in restaurants and cafés. Read more here: gov.uk/government/new…

@IpswichCAB Well said.

'Shameful' more spent on benefits than jobs for young people, says Milburn ~ buff.ly/rAVh4aI

@DebateHazel Looks like what’s happening to the independent sector. Few 🌹shed tears about that. Time to thin out the economically hopeless degrees.

Always going to happen and foreseen with the financislisation of Higher Education

@suttontrust The ‘drama’ sector employs 250,000. Each year there are 50,000 - 60,000 drama graduates. Time to reduce the number of places where there is no possibility of employment and saddled with debt the state (tax payer) ends up paying.

The barriers that are limiting access to the creative industries are entrenched. To build a system that fairly reflects the diversity and talent across the UK, we need changes across the education pipeline, as well as action from creative employers. suttontrust.com/our-research/a…

💬 "The Sutton Trust found only 10% of writers are from working-class backgrounds." Getting to the top of the creative industries is a dream for many talented young people in our country. But access to these careers is far from equal ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@SianGriffiths6 Another outfit taking Government money with a woke lean.

We’re not here to build war drones — King’s College staff angry at merger thetimes.com/article/e1629e…

@MissDSays Budgets are a reality. It’s the real world. Business has it and the independent sector.

I really disagree with people at the DfE getting bonuses meanwhile some schools are struggling to pay their bills, lots of headteachers are actively trying to prevent teachers getting on to UPS or avoiding employing UPS teachers for financial reasons.

@Hossylass @SashaSwire Yep. Potentially here next.

@PeterTCross @SashaSwire For devolved parliaments?

Who comes up with these crackpot ideas? Paying parents to not sabotage their children’s future? It’s just a sticking plaster on a wound that needs surgery, which is the broken benefits system. It just adds another layer of complexity and would be politically toxic.

@suttontrust Probably help if 27.4% didn’t leave school without a Level 2 in English despite their education costing the taxpayer £100,000+!

@ShehabKhan @Sum1st Behind a pay wall. I do agree the system needs a change.

@PeterTCross @Sum1st Have a read of the article Peter - I break down how the repayments for plan 2 student loans work - it’s quite different to a traditional bank loan

The student loan system hits students from working class backgrounds the hardest My degree will cost me twice as much as my classmates whose parents could afford to pay the fees upfront - it's a life changing difference

@ShehabKhan @Sum1st Surely the amount you earn means repayment is straightforward?

@Sum1st The article explains how the loan isn’t the same as a traditional loan like the one you’d get for a car

@DrEmilyHarris @paullewismoney Is it really a cliff edge? What proportion of their benefits package would it currently be for one child?

@paullewismoney This is a great idea - removes a cliff edge of income

Ministers consider not stopping benefits entirely when teens go into apprenticeships bit.ly/49ici0d the loss of income now deters parents from encouraging it

@LBC 13 x £8000 is over £100k to not achieve the basics. Wow.

'They fail, they give up, they leave and then can't get a good job.' A quarter of adults don't have their maths and English GCSEs, and caller David's experience as a teacher in a sixth form college has led him to the conclusion the system needs to be completely reformed.

@paullewismoney @DavidHeadViews Perhaps best we slim down the number of economically low value degrees which saddle students with debt they never repay?

Financial pressures may stop universities helping poorer students bit.ly/42Ud4gh

@DavidHeadViews A bit like benefit fraud? Guess that’s the same.

Private education in UK is a class issue.