UK Schools cut teaching hours because of increasing energy bills
The UK’s cost of living crisis is hitting children’s education – with some schools cutting spending on teaching to save on nightmare bills.
Nearly two-thirds of headteachers are planning to chop down energy consumption amid the largest cost surge in living memory, a new poll reveals.
More than half (54 percent) say they will limit spending on equipment for their schools, while 15 percent are reducing the number of teachers or teaching hours.
Meanwhile 30 percent will scrap some non-educational support and services for pupils after wholesale gas prices skyrocketed.
A survey by the NAHT school leaders’ union showed headteachers are expecting to pay an extra £26,786 for energy in the next financial year.
On average, the total annual energy bill for each school is predicted to be £53,298.
It marks an average 106 percent jump, with 16 percent of schools anticipating costs to increase by 200 percent or more.
More than a third of headteachers fear they won’t have enough money in their budget by the end of 2023, with some warning redundancies could be on the cards.
The poll, which had more than 1,000 replies between March 21 and April 5, showed just one percent of heads believed their energy costs would not increase over the coming year.
Government assistance has proved fruitless for many. with a fifth using either the Crown Commercial Service’s School Switch service or one of the DfE’s approved frameworks for an alternative energy supply quote – but most (74 percent) still not able to lower costs.
Paul Whiteman, NAHT general secretary, said a ‘clear’ message had been sent that rising energy costs ‘will almost certainly have a negative impact on education, and could hamper recovery efforts’.
‘For some, the energy price hikes are the equivalent to the cost of a full-time teacher’, he said.
‘Every penny spent in schools is a choice. These increased energy costs mean that money which could be being spent on pupils is being paid to energy companies instead. The Government’s attempts to restore school spending to 2010 levels is being rapidly eroded by these and other cost pressures. The Government needs to do more to ease the impact of the energy crisis on schools, for children’s sake.’
A Department for Education spokesperson said officials ‘recognised schools may be facing cost pressures in the coming months’ and were considering what additional support could be offered.
They added:
‘Cost increases should be seen in the wider context of funding for schools. In 2022-23, core schools funding will increase by £4 billion compared to 2021-22 – a seven percent cash terms per pupil boost – and this will help schools to meet wider cost pressures, including energy prices. All schools can access a range of tools to help them get the best value from their resources, including recommended deals for energy costs and services related to energy.’
See more here: metro.co.uk
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Editor’s note: a seven percent increase in funding does nothing to alleviate a 100 percent increase in energy prices.
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Mark Tapley
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The Europeans have gradually let the Rockefeller Club of Rome fake climate change agenda corner them into position in which although surrounded by ample and affordable coal and petroleum resources, are now facing austerity and shortages as has been the Zionist plan from 1969. Unable to tighten the “Green Energy” vise enough, the Zionists implemented the fake war in Ukraine for good measure and also as a ploy to distract from all the goyim from those falling over debilitated or dead from the fake vaccine.
As to the government schools (indoctrination) centers they are an anachronism that will be phased out as the livestock descend further into the WEF 4th industrial revolution which is just a euphemism for Agenda 2030-21 which is just a repackaged adaptation of Marx (Moses Mordecai Levy) ten point planks of the Manifesto.
Once the digital passport for barnyard animals (China’s social credit total surveillance total control system is the model) is in place, the digitalized virtual reality will be rolled out so that all the goyim (not just the kids) will be in a new learning for life program in which they will have to constantly meet WEF “goals” in order to maintain a satisfactory profile and thereby retain a favorable credit score so they will be allowed to buy soy burgers and other vegan staples and not have their social credit scores demoted for being bad goyim. If they are deemed as non cooperative their credit allotment will be terminated so they will be in the situation that the Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) described long age:
“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Kevin Doyle
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Could the editor here please get rid of this clown, Mark Tapley?
I look to this forum as a source of information. Mark, apparently has issues with Hebrews and believes everything is some conspiracy of the Rothschilds.
Wacko!
His comments always distract from productive thought and criticism.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Kevin:
I suppose you consider your ridiculous comments as to Churchill as real information whereas mine or not. I have been over the issue of Zionism as it relates to PSI topics numerous times. If you don’t like them I suggest you just tune in CNN for your approved information.
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