The Socialist 3 February 2010 ‘Filthy rich’ get richer: Challenge the bosses’ greed! 'Filthy rich' get richer: Challenge the bosses' greed! Taliban insurgency, poverty and corruption Brown's Afghan crisis deepens Chilcot Inquiry: Millionaire Blair has no regrets Fight new attacks on London's NHS Civil service Young workers get organised Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) activities No cuts and no fees in further education Young people blocked from access to education Socialist councillors back school's protest Weak growth - the best that capitalism can offer Trade unionist and socialist coalition Bob Crow launches Portsmouth TUSC Scottish TUSC steering committee set up Unison general secretary election: Fighting left challenge needed Defend the four: Courts show what side they're on Civil service strike ballot as talks fail Fujitsu strikers determined to save jobs and pensions Sri Lanka: Violent election campaign puts Rajapakse back in power Tekel workers demand general strike in Turkey Betrayed - PTSD casualties of war |
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Home | The Socialist 3 February 2010 | Join the Socialist Party No cuts and no fees in further educationWith unemployment continuing to rise, anyone would expect to see greater numbers of adults returning to education to re-train. However Harlow College near London reported just 1,000 mature students this year compared to 6,000 eight years ago. Rae Lewis Ayling, National YFJ school and college student organiserThe reason? Funding cuts and mismanagement have meant cuts in courses. This is combined with steep increases in fees for adults returning to further education (FE). Now the government's latest review of FE, launched alongside the review of university fees, is expected to conclude that FE fees should go up for courses such as plumbing and is not ruling out fees for A-level courses for under 19 year-olds. How will this help those thrown into unemployment by the recession and its aftermath? But this is not the concern of any of the three main parties. Their concern is how to force the cost of the bank bailout, demanded by their friends in big business, on to us in the form of cuts in public services. The government is considering forcing those who are paying the price of the economic crisis with job losses to also foot an increased bill for their re-training. What a damning exposure of their claims to care for ordinary working-class people! The review's findings are due to be published in July. This means the main parties won't have to admit their support for what will be unpopular attacks on education until after the general election. Opposition from students who will be sitting their exams will be minimised. These attacks must be resisted. In the current climate people need their right to education more than ever. When the capitalist parties and their paymasters in big business call in unison that they cannot afford to fund our right to education we must respond in unison that we cannot afford capitalism. Workers seeking to re-train and school and college students seeking to learn will see these attacks for what they are: a cold, callous and calculated attempt to push the recession's cost on to the backs of ordinary people. Youth Fight for Jobs calls for action by students linking up with the education workers' unions to defeat these proposed cuts in the FE sector. In this issue
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