UCU: Investing in higher education

Motion

Motion text: HESC
notes the harmful consequences to individuals, families and communities of unemployment
believes that universities have an important part to play in economic and social regeneration, and in the development of a more just and inclusive society
calls for the doors of learning to be opened to the unemployed through the dramatic expansion of the Access system, and for state funding preparatory education to be made available so that unemployed people can return to education, either full-time or part-time, without loss of benefits
demands that national government massively increases the funding of HE as part of an economic crisis strategy that puts people before profit.