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.
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.
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.
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.
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.