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Ovenden-Hope, T., Arrexck, F., and Keillor, W. (2010) Attitudes of BME Populations in Plymouth towards Teaching as a Career. Manchester, TDA

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Hope, T., Husk, M., Dixon, T. and Camps, C. (2006) An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Teaching Observation Models in ITT (PCET) DfES

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ATSS Paper (November 2000)

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Incentives to Learn: Remuneration, Recruitment, Retention, Results.The Effectiveness of the Discretionary Financial Award the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) in Truro College. (SWFERN Paper June 2000)

  • By Tanya Ovenden-Hope

INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH TOPIC

  • EMAs are a means-tested allowance given by the Local Education Authority (LEA) to full-time students (aged 16-19 years) in post-compulsory education from low-income families.

  • The EMA is a pilot provision and began in September 1999 and will run for three years.

  • The EMA was introduced to support the Governments commitment to Lifelong Learning and widening participation in Further Education (Kennedy, 1997. Fryer Report, 1998)

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    • REMUNERATION, RECRUITMENT, RETENTION: THE EDUCATIONAL MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE AS AN INCENTIVE TO LEARN. (LSDA Paper November 2000)

    • By Tanya Ovenden-Hope

    Summary

    The Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is a discretionary financial award being developed to support young people from low-income households who undertake full-time courses in Further Education (FE). Truro College is part of the national pilot scheme for this award, which involves 55 Local Education Authorities (LEAs), that was initiated by the Government in September 1999.

    The focus of this project has been to examine the extent to which a financial incentive i

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    Incentives to Learn: Remuneration, Recruitment, Retention, Results. The Effectiveness of the Discretionary Financial Award the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) in Truro College. (BERA Paper September 2000)

    • By Tanya Ovenden-Hope

    INTRODUCTION
    In 1994 the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) established the Widening Participation Committee, chaired by Helena Kennedy QC, to advise on ways in which it could encourage more people to participate and succeed in Further Education (Kennedy, 1997). This committee commissioned the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) to investigate secondary research on financial support for students in Further Education (Herbert and Callender, 1997). The resulting reports of th

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