Heads worried tuition fee pledge for teachers to be dropped

Tuesday 27th June 2017 20:40 EDT
 

Head teachers are concerned that the promise of university tuition fee relief for teachers may be axed. The Conservative manifesto proposed that teachers would not repay tuition fees while they remained in teaching - to help tackle staffing shortages.

Many other education policies have been ditched - and heads' leader Russell Hobby says he is concerned the new government has "gone quiet" on fees. He called for urgent clarification on whether the plan was being dropped.


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