General Election 2015: Give us five! Survey

We want government to put into place a national financial protection scheme into which all education providers have to pay, to ensure that students’ studies are not disrupted in the event of institutional failure, or funding sources being severed by natural or civil crises in their home country.

To make it possible for students and young people to set up their own businesses we want the next government to set up and deliver a National Student Enterprise Scheme.

To ensure young people develop the skills they need to succeed in a sustainable economy, we want the government to make sustainability competencies a compulsory part of all apprenticeship programmes.

To ensure that work pays enough to live, we want political parties to commit to a living wage by raising the income tax threshold to the equivalent of a full-time salary at Living Wage.

We want political parties to commit to include a requirement in all government contracts that all delivery companies must create a set number of new jobs and opportunities for young people in proportion to the contract size.

We want government to scrap letting agent fees so that students are clear on the costs of renting from the beginning, and are able to spread their costs across the year.

We want government to protect and improve the Disabled Students Allowance.

We want the next government to reverse the NHS Bill, go back to the drawing board, and ensure that we have a National Health Service that is public, accountable and fit for purpose for the next century and beyond.

We want government to signal a move towards an equal national minimum wage by raising the apprentice minimum wage to the same rate as the minimum wage for 18–20 year olds.

We want government to treat asylum seekers with conditional leave to remain as home students for student finance purposes, giving them access to the funding and support they need to achieve their potential.

We want the government to provide all non-EU international students with the right to work in all industries, free from restriction, for 12 months after study.

We want political parties to put an end to playing politics with our world-leading education system and scrap the use of arbitrary net migration targets.

We want government to phase out tuition fees and restore public funding to universities and colleges.

We want the next government to introduce and enforce legislation that all work experience of over four weeks should be paid at least national minimum wage.

We want government to make a commitment to public education by ensuring that no penny of public funding goes to for-profit providers of education.

General Election 2015: Give us five!

Pick your top five issues for the 2015 General Election

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Give us five issues you feel are most important to you. The Guild will lobby for these issues during this year's General Election.

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Do you have any further thoughts, either about this survey or the Guild's response to the General Election?