Anjum Klair
England’s universities have been told they will have their budgets slashed by nearly £1bn over the next academic year.
Cuts Watch: Education
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Anjum Klair
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Anjum Klair
The Guardian reports that funding for trainee teachers has been cut by 14% for secondary schools, which will result in the number of students funded being cut by 2,200, from 16,845 to 14,555. The number of English, art and music trainee teachers will drop substantially.
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Richard Exell
On Christmas Eve, we reported on the Department for Education’s 100 per cent cuts in funding of schemes run by the Book Trust that give children books at key points in their lives. Over the next few days it emerged that leading authors were very critical of this move. Today, the Telegraph, Independent and Guardian all report that Michael Gove has caved in in record time, and that the Department and the Trust have issued a joint statement, saying that “the DFE will continue to fund Booktrust book-gifting programmes in the future” and that:
Although the current contract will end in April, the department is talking to Booktrust about how to develop a new programme which will ensure that every child can enjoy the gift of books at crucial moments in their lives while ensuring we develop an even more effective way of supporting the most disadvantaged families to read together. The department and Booktrust will be working together, with publishers, in order to ensure that we can make every possible saving in developing an enhanced programme.
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Richard Exell
Were you wondering about how to pick some good books for your children? Preferably ones that they’ll enjoy, but that will be useful for them at school as well?
You’re in luck.
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Richard Exell
The government has decided the details of the cut in the grant for university teaching. In a letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Vince Cable and David Willetts announced that next year’s teaching grant will be 6 per cent lower than this year’s – once inflation is taken into account this is an 8 per cent real terms cut.
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Richard Exell
On 13 December the National Union of Students and trade unions ATL, GMB, NUT, UCU, UNISON and Unite are holding a nationwide day of lunchtime protests at colleges to demand that the government abandons its plans to scrap Educational Maintenance Allowances. They have set up an EMA Campaign website, with a petition and useful facts and arguments. Protestors will be contacting their local MP to make the case for keeping the EMA and unions will ask them to join the demonstrations on the 13th.
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Richard Exell
The range of people campaigning against the decision to abolish School Sports Partnerships and end funding for the Youth Sports Trust must have surprised the government. Its certainly produced uncertainty round the cabinet table – on Tuesday night David Cameron said the government was going to “look carefully” at the issue, with the Telegraph reporting that the funding to be made available was “believed to be” £100 million – more than half the £162 million saved by the cuts.
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Richard Exell
In the Observer sports section Portsmouth and former England goalie David James speaks out against school sports cuts. The paper also reports divisions in the Cabinet, with Nick Clegg and Andrew Lansley both critical of the move.
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Nicola Smith
Local press stories on the impacts that cuts are having on people’s lives are now widespread.
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Nicola Smith
Today’s Telegraph reports that the Government are planning to cut all funding for free adult education for the over-25s.
