All 18-year-old students in the UK are required to study maths: Rishi Sunak-News Focus bd
All 18-year-old students in the UK are required to study maths. All students in the UK are required to study some form of mathematics until the age of 18. This is what the country's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is planning.
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| UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. File photo: Reuters |
BBC Online reports that Prime Minister Rishi will announce his priority plans in his maiden speech in 2023. The UK is now reeling from multiple strikes, a cost-of-living crisis, and huge pressure on the National Health Service (NHS). The sage will talk about these too.
Prime Minister Rishi will have to prove his competence and tenacity in his first speech in 2023. After the political turmoil in the country last year, he has to give an idea to move forward.
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| All 18-year-old students in the UK are required to study maths |
Meanwhile, it was said from the Prime Minister's residence on Tuesday that the National Health Service has been given the necessary financial support. The government is very confident in this regard.
Munira Wilson, the Liberal Democratic Party's education spokeswoman, called the plan an admission of failure by the Prime Minister on behalf of the Conservative Party, which she said had badly neglected children's education.
Rishi is expected to expand on his vision for the UK in his first speech of the year. He can also personally take charge of the NHS crisis. But the country's opposition parties have blamed the Prime Minister for the ongoing crisis in the NHS. Because senior doctors had already warned about such accidents and the total crisis that the emergency units are in.
In the speech, Rishi is expected to emphasize mathematics education. The Prime Minister may say, 'Nowadays the emphasis is on data everywhere in the world and statistics play a role in every job. Our jobs require more analytical skills. Without these skills, the youths fall into the job market. Later you have to be disappointed.
According to Rishi Sunak, only half of the students between the ages of 16 and 19 study mathematics. This includes students studying science and those already attending college with compulsory GCSEs. However, in this case, it is not clear whether the students studying humanities and creative subjects including B-Tech have to study mathematics or not. A Downing Street spokesman said the government was looking at innovative options to enhance existing qualifications. The prime minister is expected to start work on these plans in the current parliament and finish them after the next general election. According to data from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, between 2021 and 2030, the number of 16- to 18-year-olds in the country will increase by 18 percent, which equates to 200,000 additional students. Leaders of The Association of Schools and Colleges say there is a chronic shortage of maths teachers in the country.
Meanwhile, Labour's Shadow Education Minister Bridget Phillipson has called on Prime Minister Rishi to explain how large numbers of students will be funded to study maths.
Bridget Phillipson said she could not impose the decision without enough maths teachers. The government has not been able to achieve its target in the recruitment of mathematics teachers for years. The number of 16 to 18-year-olds in the UK will increase by 18 percent between 2021 and 2030, equivalent to 200,000 additional students.
Munira Wilson, the Liberal Democratic Party's education spokeswoman, called the plan an admission of failure by the Prime Minister on behalf of the Conservative Party, which she said had badly neglected children's education. Munira Wilson said many children are being held back in maths. This happens before children reach the age of 16.
In 2011, then Education Secretary Michael Gove said he wanted to see large numbers of 18-year-olds in England studying maths within the next decade.
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