EMA

Research begins on the education maintenance allowance.

Feeding into NUS’ Hidden Costs of FE campaign and research project, the FE zone has launched a survey on the education maintenance allowance (EMA), which we would like everyone who has applied for an EMA, be that now or in the past, to complete.

Our aim is to influence and improve government and LSC (Learning and Skills Council) policy on EMA, and we would aim at the outset to take the results from our survey to the LSC’s Learning Support Consultative Forum in May.

NUS has much anecdotal evidence on EMA, but hope that the results will provide us with strong empirical evidence to lobby with.

Please post the link on your own student union website and encourage friends, fellow students and members of your students’ union to complete the survey, as the more responses we receive, the better the evidence we have to lobby with.

The deadline for responding to the survey is Friday 14 March 2008.