UCU: Stop the cuts to ESOL and adult and community education

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. that cuts to adult learning of up to 6% nationally, and 3% in the devolved authorities are already having a significant impact on vocational courses, as well as ESOL, English, digital skills and maths pathways
2. that this comes on top of previous cuts the DFE has made to the Adult Skills Fund
Conference believes that:
a. these cuts will negatively impact adult, community and ESOL education in colleges
b. the majority of adult learners who will lose out are women and from minoritised ethnic group
c. these are direct cuts to classes, jobs and communities, and the fundamental role of FE in adult learning.
Conference calls on the NEC and the General Secretary to:
i. raise the profile of the UCU campaign for ACE
ii. to lobby local MPs and the elected mayors to support a more flexible approach to adult learning.