In the latest cuts to niche educational programmes Labour is scrapping the “hugely successful” Advanced Mathematics Support Programme. Running since 2018, the initiative helped state schools teach further, higher, and core maths. Delivered by the Maths Education Innovation charity the scheme is seen as crucial in the age of AI…
The programme had a budget of only £17 million over two years. The government justifies the “difficult decision” to cut it by claiming the “22 billion black hole” left by the Tories must be addressed. Guido thinks that argument might have more teeth if Labour wasn’t handing £17 million on the exact same day to controversy-ridden Gaza aid agency UNRWA. Anneliese Dodds today hails UNRWA’s “vital role” as she announces the new taxpayer funded “humanitarian package” to agencies in the region. Priorities…
Anneliese Dodds is in Cairo today to kick off a three-day trip to the Middle East focussed on Gaza. With millions in taxpayer cash to hand over…
£6 million each is going to the UN’s World Food Programme and Office for Coordinated Humanitarian Affairs while Dodds says the FCDO will hand £7 million directly to the UN’s scandal-ridden Palestine relief agency UNRWA. That figure alone is 875% of the “landmark” amount given to Baghdad last week which will apparently deal with small boats…
The Tories suspended taxpayer funding to UNRWA back in January after 12 employees were accused of participating in the October 7th attacks. The UN then fired nine staff who were “likely or highly likely” to have been part of the attacks, a month after Lammy restarted UK funding in July. £7 million can buy a fair few passports…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”