A new report from Professor Alison Wolf has suggested that Britain risks losing a key supply of skilled workers if the government does not row back from plans to cut further education budgets.
The Guardian has published a number of letters in response to the article by John Harris last week, ‘Further education provides a lifeline. But try telling the government that’.
The Guardian carries a piece by journalist and author John Harris who argues that ‘the gilded cage of Westminster appears to regard FE colleges and the skills they offer as irrelevant’.
The Liverpool Echo reports that Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman has blasted the Tory Government for a ‘pathetic’ response to her concerns about cuts and the impact on 1,300 City of Liverpool College places next year.
The Hackney Gazette reports on the lobby of parliament which was supported by staff and students from Hackney Community College which is facing ‘unfair and disproportionate’ cuts of £2.9m.
The Romford Recorder reports that Romford’s FE colleges have written a letter to Havering’s MPs outlining their fears of additional funding cuts which could target 16 to 19-year-olds.