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DEVON CHOW, Ealing Young People's Voice in Youth Parliament

I believe with your vote I can rewrite the story for youths' future, better and fairer

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Your interests harmed?

Letters to MP (12/9, 25/10)

School surgeries

Chris Lucas' reply (13/4)

David Cameron's reply (1/5)

Done for you:

Autumn: 6 months in post, I am now more focussed on college/uni fees and gym vouchers to students. Arranging a petition accordingly, e.g. discussing with Ealing MPs (got a disappointing reply from David Willetts, the Minister of State for Universities and Science) and students. Meeting with Boris Johnson, Mayor of London in mid-Nov. You like the new "Your interests harmed" section?

Spring: Disappointed with David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and all existing MPs and Ealing MP candidates for their poor responses to my £50m spending proposal (opposite).

Ongoing: I gave a presentation to a Chinese community (CIAC) in August, interviews to Ealing Gazette in March 2010, and to BBC London and BBC Chinese in April 2010 to spread our messages of youth priorities. I attended regional MYP meetings to lobby for support for delivering my manifesto.

Youth Parliament

Let us youths determine our future now, fight together for

School curriculum (gym subsidy)

Student debt (tuition fees/tax holiday)

Devon's speech at Parliament (video)

Top News:

Click here to choose your top 5 issues for the UK Youth Parliament to debate at the House of Commons by 20 September. The choices range from exams and sex education to youths' voting rights, fox hunting, youth crime as well as justifications for the wars in the Middle East.

The Labour Government revealed a plan (National Intern Scheme) to create job placements for graduates in January 2009. The Conservative Government has done nothing to take this forward. I will follow up on this by writing to the Skills Secretary.

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School curriculum:

The Institute of Education releases a survey suggesting children do better in their exams when their teachers focus on learning rather than on test results

Student debts:

The Push national student debt survey 2010 reveals that students can now expect to graduate with average debts of £23k. Universities and science minister David Willetts comments on the survey (13/8).

Growth in university bursaries (5/8)

Jobs for young people:

Search public jobs: www.jobsgopublic.com

Graduate unemployment set to double to 40,000 amid struggle to find work in recession (11/6)

Welfare for young people:

Emergency Budget measures "regressive": The coalition's emergency Budget has hit families with children the hardest, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (25/8).