UCU: Save post-16 education (for the many not the few)

Motion

Motion text: Congress believes:
1. The government attack on “low-value” courses combined with the funding crisis, threatens mass redundancies; loss of post-16 courses and bankruptcies
2. Post-16 education is a vital societal resource for development of people and knowledge. It’s institutions provide the possibility of challenge to established thinking, allowing the interrogation, development, and expansion of knowledge and where minoritised and oppressed groups have opened space to decolonise and challenge establishment ideology.
3. The attack on the value of arts and humanities in post-16 education is simultaneously an attack on the expansion of working class and minoritised people’s access and an ideological attack on post-16 education
Congress instructs NEC: to launch a national campaign to save post-16 education, led by branches threatened with loss of courses, involving students and civil society, and focused on winning the argument for post-16 education centred on student’s personal development and expansion of knowledge in all spheres.