Financial Times Article Rating

Does Boris Johnson have the right plan to 'skill up' the UK workforce?

Sep 27, 2021 View Original Article
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    -4% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : And ministers are planning that every adult should have a flexible "life-long loan entitlement" for up to four years of post-18 study: financial support via student loans for a range of technical qualifications.
52% : The Financial Times reported on Sunday that the government is planning to cut the earnings threshold at which graduates begin repaying student loans, in a move that will save the Treasury money and serve to push more young people towards cheaper further education courses.
51% : Since 2010, government spending on adult further education in England has dropped by one-third, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank.
38% : First, chancellor Rishi Sunak could be more willing to help than his predecessors because he can minimise taxpayer losses on student loans if the government can persuade more school leavers to go to further education colleges rather than universities.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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