Where the parties stand on education
- Con
- Lab
- Lib
- Ukip
- Green
- SNP
- Turn every failing secondary school into an academy and open up at least 500 more free schools.
- Protect school funding per pupil.
- Ensure a good primary school place for every child.
- Raise school standards by making sure that every permanent teacher is fully qualified.
- Protect the entire education budget from early years through to post-16 education.
- Guarantee a job for every young person who has been out of work for more than a year.
- Ensure qualified teachers and a core curriculum including sex education in all state schools.
- Ringfence the education budget for 2- to 19-year-olds and end child illiteracy by 2025.
- Extend free school meals to all primary pupils.
- Abolish tuition fees for those studying science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine.
- Increase the number of grammar schools.
- End the target of 50% of school leavers going to university.
- Scrap university tuition fees and cancel pre-existing student debt issued by the Student Loans Company.
- Bring academies and free schools under local authority oversight.
- Remove charity status from private schools.
- Guarantee a place in learning or training for every 16-to-19-year-old.
- Increase free nursery hours from 16 to 30 a week.
- Continue no tuition fees for Scottish students.