Motion
- Motion title
- Late motion on funding cuts
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 29 May 2009
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- L5
- Motion text
Alistair Darling's Budget demand that universities and colleges make £400 million pounds of 'efficiency savings';
John Denham's (Secretary of State, DIUS) announcement that universities can recruit only 10,000 extra students this year but must save £180 million by 2010-11.
Congress believes these cuts:
fail to address the need to invest in education during a recession;
fail to address the demand for more places in response to rising mass unemployment;
represent a major attack on jobs and conditions in F and HE and threaten many courses and thousands of lecturing jobs;
will reverse the expansion of higher education and Labour's pledge that 50% of 18-30 year olds will have a degree or be studying for one by 2010;
will impact disproportionately on working class students and prospective students.
Congress resolves to prioritise resistance to the effects of these cuts in order to defend jobs, pay, conditions and education itself.
- Proposing body
- Nelson and Colne College
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/C/05-29/119/L5