Phillipson Splurges Four Times the Cost of Slashed Education Programmes on PR and Media Contracts – Guido Fawkes

Phillipson Splurges Four Times the Cost of Slashed Education Programmes on PR and Media Contracts

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The Department for Education will pay £40 million (along with another £50 million from DHSC) for solar panels on schools with GB Energy branding. Miliband will be happy with having other ministers roped into his latest initiative…

As UK DOGE recently revealed Phillipson’s department is also in the process of spending £90.7 million on a one-year contract for “advertising and media services.” That is then a total of £130.7 million in government self-promotion projects in one go from the DfE. That puts some of Busy Bridget’s recent education cuts decisions in an interesting light…

• £17 million Mathematics Support Programme. Lauded internationally…
• £2.7 million Stimulating Physics Network (SPN). Responsible for a 6% total uptake of pupils taking A-level physics and a 16% extra uptake in the proportion of girls taking the subject…
• £4 million Latin Excellence Programme (LEP).
• £3.9 million National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE).
• £2.8 million Language hubs.

£30.4 million total. That means that if Bridget cut her self-promotion programmes she could reinstate the well-respected subject hub programmes four times over. Priorities…