Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.
Require universities to partially refund tuition fees for 20/21 due to Covid-19
Open from Wednesday 29th July 2020 to Friday 29th January 2021
270,659 signatures
Lower university tuition fees for students until online teaching ends
Open from Monday 5th October 2020 to Monday 5th April 2021
171,137 signatures
Recognise Teaching Assistants as an important asset to schools by raising wage.
Open from Tuesday 19th July 2022 to Thursday 2nd February 2023
88,410 signatures
Remove references to 'gender identity' from relationships education guidance
Open from Monday 4th July 2022 to Wednesday 18th January 2023
38,397 signatures
Ensure fair grading for GCSE and A Level students in 2023
Open from Thursday 26th January 2023 to Wednesday 26th July 2023
37,120 signatures
Tuition Fee Compensation for International Students in UK Universities
Open from Tuesday 2nd March 2021 to Thursday 2nd September 2021
36,222 signatures
Make SEND training mandatory for all teaching staff
Open from Tuesday 8th February 2022 to Monday 8th August 2022
28,782 signatures
Require Sikhism to be taught in UK schools from Reception upwards
Open from Thursday 16th September 2021 to Wednesday 16th March 2022
25,171 signatures
Fund more specialist school places for children with special educational needs
Open from Monday 11th July 2022 to Wednesday 25th January 2023
16,972 signatures
Funding for ventilation in all school/college/uni classrooms
Open from Monday 23rd August 2021 to Wednesday 23rd February 2022
11,708 signatures
Extend business rates relief to include every English language teaching school
Open from Wednesday 12th August 2020 to Friday 12th February 2021
11,133 signatures
Increase the National Living Wage for classroom assistants & teaching assistants
Open from Friday 16th April 2021 to Saturday 16th October 2021
10,892 signatures
Require universities to refund for practical courses year 20/21 due to COVID-19
Open from Monday 14th December 2020 to Monday 14th June 2021
5,221 signatures
Impose sanctions on China for their treatment of practitioners of Falun Gong
Open from Wednesday 21st April 2021 to Thursday 21st October 2021
4,562 signatures
Review guidance and funding for using SSP (phonics) to teach reading
Open from Monday 25th October 2021 to Monday 25th April 2022
3,205 signatures
Support Dance schools and venues that provide dance activities amidst COVID-19
Open from Tuesday 14th July 2020 to Thursday 14th January 2021
2,518 signatures
Award 2021 grades based on 50:50 of teacher assessment and exams
Open from Monday 19th October 2020 to Monday 19th April 2021
2,345 signatures
Schools to have the funding for a full time teaching assistant in every class.
Open from Monday 5th October 2020 to Monday 5th April 2021
1,614 signatures
Make LGBTQIA+ History mandatory in the primary/secondary national curriculum
Open from Wednesday 21st July 2021 to Friday 21st January 2022
1,149 signatures
Close schools and colleges and replace exams with teacher assessed grades
Open from Wednesday 22nd December 2021 to Wednesday 22nd June 2022
1,042 signatures
Require schools to allow pupils to wear PE kit for the full day on PE day
Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
981 signatures
Give all teaching assistants a payrise after their sacrifice during Covid19.
Open from Thursday 23rd July 2020 to Saturday 23rd January 2021
868 signatures
Impose sanctions on China for their treatment of practitioners of Falun Gong
Open from Tuesday 20th October 2020 to Tuesday 20th April 2021
865 signatures
Fund research and awareness campaign to help Adenomyosis patients
Open from Tuesday 27th October 2020 to Tuesday 27th April 2021
785 signatures
Lift social distancing in schools and nurseries for the sake of mental health
Open from Wednesday 12th August 2020 to Friday 12th February 2021
762 signatures
Add sign language on to the national schools curriculum.
Open from Tuesday 26th October 2021 to Tuesday 26th April 2022
702 signatures
Keep all schools and colleges open in England
Open from Monday 9th November 2020 to Sunday 9th May 2021
693 signatures
Require universities to fully refund tuition fees for the Autumn term
Open from Thursday 5th November 2020 to Wednesday 5th May 2021
635 signatures
Ensure all 2021 examinations are based on teacher assessment only.
Open from Monday 7th September 2020 to Sunday 7th March 2021
617 signatures
Introduce a whole curriculum approach to ending sexism and misogyny in schools
Open from Wednesday 6th October 2021 to Wednesday 6th April 2022
503 signatures
The DfE to produce a standardised application form for teaching jobs
Open from Thursday 13th August 2020 to Saturday 13th February 2021
495 signatures
Fund free wifi for university students forced into online learning
Open from Monday 26th October 2020 to Monday 26th April 2021
481 signatures
Require schools teach about Islam as part of religious education
Open from Monday 18th July 2022 to Wednesday 1st February 2023
432 signatures
Increase funding for Special Education Needs schools
Open from Thursday 3rd December 2020 to Thursday 3rd June 2021
399 signatures
Increase awareness of the dangers of swimming in lakes and rivers
Open from Thursday 14th July 2022 to Saturday 28th January 2023
388 signatures
Implement support for university students during Covid-19
Open from Tuesday 20th October 2020 to Tuesday 20th April 2021
333 signatures
Reverse changes to teacher training bursaries to prevent loss of teachers
Open from Tuesday 20th October 2020 to Tuesday 20th April 2021
330 signatures
Reduce university fees for degrees that do not offer full in-person teaching.
Open from Friday 28th May 2021 to Sunday 28th November 2021
318 signatures
Sex education and consent to be mandatory in primary schools
Open from Monday 19th October 2020 to Monday 19th April 2021
315 signatures
Decolonise the UK curriculum and make it more diverse
Open from Thursday 6th May 2021 to Saturday 6th November 2021
294 signatures
Free flu vaccine for teachers, teaching assistants and early years educators
Open from Tuesday 3rd November 2020 to Monday 3rd May 2021
290 signatures
Make teaching of age-appropriate sex education compulsory from Year 6
Open from Friday 8th April 2022 to Saturday 22nd October 2022
289 signatures
Increase support for the English Language Teaching sector
Open from Wednesday 26th May 2021 to Friday 26th November 2021
273 signatures
Scrap the sugar tax on soft drinks
Open from Friday 9th July 2021 to Sunday 9th January 2022
223 signatures
Suspend 2021 school summer holidays - children to catch up from missed termtime.
Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
196 signatures
Reduce university tuition fees to a more affordable £3,000 per year
Open from Tuesday 12th October 2021 to Tuesday 12th April 2022
194 signatures
Take action to recognise the Panjabi people and wrongs against them
Open from Monday 9th August 2021 to Wednesday 9th February 2022
191 signatures
Reduce examination content for all GCSEs and A Levels in 2022.
Open from Thursday 15th July 2021 to Saturday 15th January 2022
182 signatures
Make the education of sexual consent, assault & rape compulsory in junior school
Open from Tuesday 20th April 2021 to Wednesday 20th October 2021
159 signatures
Create a Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Action Plan
Open from Wednesday 19th October 2022 to Wednesday 19th April 2023
157 signatures
Teach about dangers of gang culture in schools
Open from Thursday 3rd December 2020 to Thursday 3rd June 2021
150 signatures
Delay 2021 GCSE and A-level exams to allow students to catch up.
Open from Thursday 10th September 2020 to Wednesday 10th March 2021
137 signatures
Increase the minimum legal allocation of protected PPA time to 20%
Open from Monday 19th April 2021 to Tuesday 19th October 2021
132 signatures
Increase required teaching on climate change in the national curriculum
Open from Wednesday 31st August 2022 to Tuesday 14th March 2023
129 signatures
Expand the citizenship subject content on Human Rights
Open from Tuesday 9th August 2022 to Thursday 23rd February 2023
123 signatures
Require regulation of dog swimming pools.
Open from Thursday 31st December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
120 signatures
Implement teaching of eating disorders into science curriculum for key stage 3+
Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
119 signatures
Fund pay rises for teachers in line with inflation
Open from Friday 8th July 2022 to Sunday 22nd January 2023
117 signatures
Remove Maths & English GCSE requirement for Teacher Training Courses
Open from Thursday 27th August 2020 to Saturday 27th February 2021
107 signatures
Exempt Uni students affected by Covid from being charged interest on loans.
Open from Wednesday 11th November 2020 to Tuesday 11th May 2021
103 signatures
Require schools teach students about gender identity by Year 6
Open from Monday 23rd May 2022 to Wednesday 7th December 2022
101 signatures
Require Universities to partially refund tuition fees for 19/20 due to Covid-19
Open from Monday 5th October 2020 to Monday 5th April 2021
101 signatures
Require schools to teach students about knife crime as part of the curriculum
Open from Thursday 5th August 2021 to Saturday 5th February 2022
100 signatures
Fund free self-defence classes for women in the UK
Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
98 signatures
Fund anti-bullying campaigns and training to support LGBT pupils in education
Open from Tuesday 6th July 2021 to Thursday 6th January 2022
97 signatures
Add sustainability to the National Curriculum
Open from Monday 12th July 2021 to Wednesday 12th January 2022
96 signatures
Keep music schools open through COVID19 restrictions
Open from Thursday 12th November 2020 to Wednesday 12th May 2021
94 signatures
Close schools and colleges in areas under tier 4
Open from Monday 21st December 2020 to Monday 21st June 2021
90 signatures
Increase PGCE bursary amounts for the academic year 2022/23
Open from Thursday 20th October 2022 to Thursday 20th April 2023
89 signatures
Make psychology a mandatory subject in the secondary school curriculum
Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
84 signatures
Reform GCSE Mathematics to have 'core' and 'advanced' options
Open from Friday 4th March 2022 to Sunday 4th September 2022
82 signatures
Make the teaching of neurodiversity mandatory in schools
Open from Monday 8th August 2022 to Wednesday 22nd February 2023
82 signatures
Regulate international educational partnerships to prevent foreign influence
Open from Thursday 20th August 2020 to Saturday 20th February 2021
81 signatures
Stop plans to freeze Teachers, Teaching Assistants and School Admin Staff wages.
Open from Wednesday 2nd December 2020 to Wednesday 2nd June 2021
80 signatures
Seek to join the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)
Open from Tuesday 23rd March 2021 to Thursday 23rd September 2021
77 signatures
Change the two year NQT induction period back to one year.
Open from Monday 1st February 2021 to Sunday 1st August 2021
76 signatures
Make the teaching of Black history compulsory in primary and secondary schools.
Open from Wednesday 28th April 2021 to Thursday 28th October 2021
73 signatures
Prioritise university workers for COVID 19 vaccine
Open from Monday 30th November 2020 to Sunday 30th May 2021
69 signatures
Make Mental Health and Well-being a mandatory subject for GCSE students
Open from Friday 28th January 2022 to Thursday 28th July 2022
64 signatures
Add mindfulness, meditation, morality and ethics to the national curriculum
Open from Wednesday 28th October 2020 to Wednesday 28th April 2021
60 signatures
Provide funding to ITT providers to give trainee teachers a salary.
Open from Monday 22nd November 2021 to Sunday 22nd May 2022
53 signatures
Make politics lessons mandatory in schools
Open from Tuesday 1st September 2020 to Monday 1st March 2021
49 signatures
Add mental health training to teaching courses
Open from Monday 27th September 2021 to Sunday 27th March 2022
49 signatures
Require universities to reimburse students 1/3 of their tuition fees
Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
46 signatures
Reinstate ITT bursaries for all subjects
Open from Thursday 14th October 2021 to Thursday 14th April 2022
46 signatures
Fund an additional year of study for university students
Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
44 signatures
Refund University tuition fees for 20/21 due to Covid-19
Open from Thursday 2nd September 2021 to Wednesday 2nd March 2022
42 signatures
Teach two languages to every child as part of the National Curriculum
Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
41 signatures
Ban secondary schools from starting teaching before 9am
Open from Monday 30th November 2020 to Sunday 30th May 2021
41 signatures
Make it mandatory for all teaching staff to be first aid trained.
Open from Wednesday 18th August 2021 to Friday 18th February 2022
40 signatures
Cancel all GCSE, AS and A level exams until 2024.
Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
38 signatures
Provide funding to improve the quality of teaching in schools of sexual violence
Open from Tuesday 23rd March 2021 to Thursday 23rd September 2021
38 signatures
Introduce age restrictions for the sale of barbecues and matches
Open from Monday 27th July 2020 to Wednesday 27th January 2021
37 signatures
Require social media sites to remove content showing physically harmful activity
Open from Tuesday 28th September 2021 to Monday 28th March 2022
36 signatures
Do not impose new taxes on sugar and salt in food
Open from Thursday 29th July 2021 to Saturday 29th January 2022
35 signatures
Require all teachers and TAs to have basic mental health training
Open from Tuesday 9th March 2021 to Thursday 9th September 2021
30 signatures
Increase student maintenance loans in line with RPI inflation year-on-year
Open from Friday 15th October 2021 to Friday 15th April 2022
30 signatures
Make the national curriculum more inclusive of LGBTQIA+ topics
Open from Monday 23rd May 2022 to Wednesday 7th December 2022
29 signatures
Fund data for students during Covid-19
Open from Thursday 17th December 2020 to Thursday 17th June 2021
28 signatures
Stop the funding cut for salaried route into primary teaching
Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
27 signatures
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