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General Election 2019
Ahead of the forthcoming General Election to be held on 12th December 2019, the manifestos, or equivalent, of the parties can be found below.
- Conservative Party
- Labour Party
- Liberal Democrat Party
- Plaid Cymru
- Brexit Party
- United Kingdom Independence Party
- Green Party
- Scottish National Party
- Labour Party Scotland
- Labour Party Wales
- Scottish Conservatives
- Welsh Conservatives (not featured on their website)
- DUP (not yet available at time of publication)
- Sinn Féin (link to policy document archive)
BERA Blogs on #GE2019
- General Election 2019: Where do the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems stand on education? – BERA President Dominic Wyse
- Selective schooling: A suitable vehicle for social mobility? – Julie Smith
- School accountability by Progress 8: A critique of Conservative and Labour proposals – George Leckie, Lucy Prior, Harvey Goldstein
- More to follow shortly…
Other information:
- Schoolzone have a survey listing the main education policies taken from the political manifestos which will have an impact on the education sector. This can be found here.
- The initial findings report of the survey can be viewed here.
- The EPI have published a report, General election 2019: An analysis of manifesto plans for education which assesses each party’s education policies, considering the extent to which they are based on research evidence and whether and how they are likely to impact on overall attainment and the gaps between more vulnerable children and the rest.