Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 83274
Further Education: Student Wastage
Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 31 October 2025
Question
Mark Garnier
Conservative — Wyre Forest
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that further education colleges are able to apply discretion in relation to retaining students who may have been absent from maths or English GCSE lessons.
Answer
Josh MacAlisterFurther education colleges can decide to retain students who have been absent from their maths or English lessons, but they will have their future funding allocations reduced by half the national funding rate for every eligible student who is not offered ...
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