New blog post by 157 Group Executive Director Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE on how the latest funding cuts to adult education has created at least a ripple of general concern outside of the skills sector.
157 Group: Skills rhetoric doesn’t make the cut
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FE Week: A budget for drinkers not thinkers
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FE Week included a piece by regular contributor Mick Fletcher, who said that the choices made by the chancellor’s during his recent budget was a sad day for skills when investment.
March on Downing Street: 25 March
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The London region of the University and College Union has announced a march on Downing Street to take place on 25 March
MPs pressed during London lobby
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The London region of the University and College Union organised a lobby of parliament on 18 March. Speakers at the rally included MPs Caroline Lucas, John McDonnell, Jim FitzPatrick, Rushanara Ali, as well as college principals.
New Statesman: further education is an easy target for cuts because the chattering classes don’t care
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The New Statesman’s Hugo Plowden says the cuts mean that many colleges now depend on exploiting their hardworking staff in order to function
The Guardian: politicians must start seeing lifelong learning as an investment – not a cost
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Ian Nash writes in The Guardian that the savage cuts in adult education funding have left us with an elitist system which fails those who need it most and undermines the government’s own skills agenda.
Independent: can the government get away with denying 400,000 people access to education because of cuts?
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Article by James Tennent in the Independent on how the government is about to prevent at least 400,000 people from accessing adult education, and completely get away with it.
BBC: swings and roundabouts for skills funding
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Chris Cook, policy editor of the BBC’s Newsnight, has published a piece looking at the funding cuts announcement and their consequences.
UCU: 24% cut to skills funding ‘an act of wilful vandalism that will decimate further education’
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UCU reacts to the funding announcement by warning that the cuts in funding for adult learning courses risk decimating further education provision
Association of Colleges reacts to the funding announcement
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English FE sector employer body the Association of Colleges, has written and blogged about the funding announcement