heystudents.com

School budgets would be protected for the next five years, Gordon Brown announced today as he had promised to spend more money to improve education and prevent young generation is losing the recession.

The Labor government will be “relentless determination to” raise standards in schools and “aggressive” turn around low performing schools, the prime minister. There should be “no cap on aspiration, no limits and unlimited opportunities where your talents can go.”

But to achieve this, spending on schools would have to continue and even improve, he said.

“I can tell you that in the next five years can not and will not reduce support for our schools. We will not invest less but more,” Brown said.

His announcement, made in his speech to the Brighton Conference, ends speculation about Labor’s spending plans for schools and will focus attention on the Conservatives refuse to protect education spending.

Protection of frontline services such as schools, will be paid by reducing costs, increasing national insurance contributions in 2011 and with more “realistic” of public sector pay settlements. The prime minister’s comments increase the likelihood of a wage freeze for teachers from next year.

The schools secretary, Ed Balls, had already discussed plans to make savings of around £ 2 billion by cutting staff between racks and the federation of schools to reduce the number of principals and assistant principals. An internal report commissioned by the Department of Pelotas, leaked over the weekend, suggested that schools were losing millions each year on over-expensive contracts and construction projects.

Brown also announced plans conceived with the Federation of Small Businesses to establish 10,000 internships for college and school leavers to help get some experience in the difficult job market.