ema stopping

[mollykins]

Noone will get ema after this year for attending further education, do you think less people will go to college?

If so it'll only be a msall drop, but I do know of people that picked the three easiest a-level subjects or are doing gcse resits, to get the money because it's easier than getting a job.

[boxtops]

sorry molly, what's ema?

[mollykins]

Educationa maitenance allowance.

If you're parents earn less than about 20k a year in total you get £30, between 20 and 25k you get £15 and between 25 and 30k you get £10 a week, for turning up to lessons.

You also get £100 in january and june if you go to your exams.

[jaydah]

EMA is Extra Mural Activties, eg kissing/smoking behind the bike shed, clubbing, pubbing & generally having a good time.

We aint daft, molls

[mollykins]

TBH it's not that fair seeing as I know someone who gets the £30 a week who spends most of it on going to the cinema and buying the latest video games. But life's not fair.

Yet i know someone else who only gets £10 who buys her stationary and textbooks with it as her parents won't and anything left over goes into her driving lesson funds.

[mollykins]

Which is the kind of thing you should do with it.

[ummmm]

How do you know her parents 'won't'? Maybe they can't afford to.

[mollykins]

She's in year 14 and so it's her own fault for failing and having to stay in sixth form another year so as a kind of punishment they're not paying for anything school or car related.

[mollykins]

It's what she told me and I believe her, plus it makes sense and it isn't as if her parents completely abandoned her because she failed one year she still lives with them.

[sara3]

Molly, do you have a link regarding EMA stopping?

[Prudie]

http://www.direct.gov...ToLearn/EMA/index.htm
I do

[mollykins]

It's not school, it's sixthform which isn't compulsory but the government wanted to encourage young people to stay in education so they wouldn't end up on the dole which would cost more.

[ummmm]

They've changed the leaving age now. Which I think is very sensible. 16 year olds leaving school found it too hard to find a job.

[sara3]

thank you, Prudie. I'll look forward to having to fund the rest of my daughter's A level expenses :o(

[ummmm]

Helen...they could have opted to go to college instead.