CBI President Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE, DL, called for an extension of the Kickstart Scheme deadline in a speech on the power of education.
The government should extend the Kickstart Scheme application deadline by six months until June 2022, CBI President Lord Bilimoria has said. The call came as part of a speech to the Association of School and College Leaders on the power - and importance - of education for all, especially in the wake of the pandemic.
Full transcript below.
Introduction
It’s an honour to speak at this conference today. You are the UK’s finest school and college leaders. Management teams. Strategists. Teachers. Shaping the future of education in this country.
And there is perhaps no greater task in life than yours.
Having been born and brought up in India, and seeing the thirst for learning there, I know, first-hand, just how powerful a tool education can be to transform lives.
And I can tell you story after story of children who started from nowhere, those the world used to call ‘untouchable’ – the Dalits – who, through the power of ed
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