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’.
Nick Isles, Deputy Principal of Milton Keynes College, has posted about the how the cuts impact on real people.
Not-for-profit blog Women’s Views on News has reported on the lobby of parliament held on 16 June, and the wider campaign to defend adult education.
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.
FE Week looks ahead to the lobby of MPs.
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.
UCU looks ahead to the lobby of parliament on 16 June with hundreds expected to protest to their MPs over the funding cuts
