Budget 2017: How will schools benefit?

The Spring Budget has been outlined by the chancellor Phillip Hammond in parliament, which includes measures designed to improve maths and computing in schools.

Overall investment in maths will be at £177 million and about £85 billion for computing.

In his speech, Hammond announced that the Teaching for Mastery of Maths programme will be expanded to a further 3,000 schools and £40 million will also be allocated to train maths teachers across the country.

In addition, the roll-out of a £600 Maths Premium for schools, for every additional pupil who takes A Level or core maths, is expected to be introduced

Alongside this, the chancellor welcomed invitations of proposals for new maths schools across England, with £350,000 available for each that is set up.

Hammond went on to say that “computer science is also at the heart of this revolution”.

In light of this, it has been promised that every secondary school pupil will have the opportunity to study computing by tripling the number of trained computer science teachers to 12,000.

So we’ll ensure that every secondary school pupil can study computing, by tripling the number of trained computer science teachers to 12,000.

A new National Centre for Computing has also been detailed in the autumn budget.