Motion
- Motion title
- Oppose ELQ cuts and defend part-time education
- Session
- 2007-2008
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2008
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 38
- Motion text
Congress notes that
The government's instruction to Higher Education Funding Council for England to withdraw £100 million in institutional funding for students studying for an equivalent or lower level qualification (ELQ) will have a disproportionate effect on part-time higher and further education, with institutions like Birkbeck and the Open University worst hit.
Congress believes that
These cuts are contrary to governments declared support for lifelong learning and will damage compromise the ability of adults to retrain, update their skills or change careers. They will lead to courses closing and job losses, particularly for hourly-paid, fixed term and other vulnerable categories of staff.
Congress instructs UCU to
Campaign against ELQ cuts, for increased funding for part-time education, to secure protection for vulnerable staff, and to promote publicly funded life-long learning opportunity for all.
- Proposing body
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Education committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2008/C/05-28/045/38