Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the autumn Budget which included pockets of extra funding to boost maths and computer science. Unfortunately, there was no extra core funding for mainstream, high needs and post-16 education budgets.
The Chancellor’s measures for education included:
- from 2019, a £600 ‘maths premium’ for each pupil taking Maths A-Level above current numbers;
- £42 million over three years to provide extra training to "improve the quality of teaching in Maths" in a pilot project in some under-performing schools in England;
- £84 million over four years to train 12,000 more staff qualified to teach computer science with the support of a new National Centre for Computing;
- further education colleges to receive £20 million to prepare for T-level qualifications with no detail on timeframe announced.