The funding crisis facing further education flies in the face of the government’s own learning and skills agenda, UNISON said today.
Further education colleges across the country face a cut of up to 700,000 adult learning places by 2007-08. On 21 October the Government announced that it wants college fees for adults to rise by at least 60% for those courses outside its own priority targets.
Christina McAnea, head of UNISON Education Services said: