The Yorkshire Post reports on the ‘barrage of funding cuts’ that is placing hundreds of teaching and lecturing jobs in Yorkshire at risk.
The Yorkshire Evening Post was at a city centre rally in Leeds held to highlight the impact of national funding cuts on further education.
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Graeme Demianyk, political reporter for The Huffington Post UK, reports on the House of Commons exchange between Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna and Business Secretary Sajid Javid on fears that some FE institutions could be forced to close.
FE Week export, the Secret Principal, warns that FE, which provides the bulk of the UK’s post-secondary training, faces collapse and the loss of a valuable source of professionals and technicians and asks ‘whither lifelong learning?’
The Plymouth Herald reports from the #LoveFE demonstration held in Plymouth on 27 June.
The #loveFE campaign petition, calling on government to halt the cuts and invest in lifelong learning, was handed over to Downing Street by campaign partners this morning.
A report in FE Week says that funding boss Sir David Melville, former chief executive of the FE Funding Council, has added his voice to ‘express serious concerns about the government’s handling of the sector’.
FE Week reports on the petition hand-over to 10 Downing Street.
The Plymouth Herald reports on the demonstration due to take place in Plymouth on 27 June, where Plymouth poet laureate Michael Sullivan will speak at a protest against education funding cuts.
Ian Nash writes in The Guardian on how cuts to adult education budgets are decimating services for the vulnerable and leaving people without the opportunity to develop basic skills.
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.
