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10 reasons to Save Adult Education

Please sign and share the link to the petition to Save Adult Education. Evidence shows successive and massive funding cuts over recent years and a decline in numbers of adult learners in part-time education.

Why does this matter?

There are countless reasons, but here are some:

Education equips us for life, but the world keeps changing after our compulsory school leaving ages. Adults need to…

Will a whole class will have to stay behind?

Social class still determines most people’s life experiences in the UK.

Inequality in wealth, health, social networks and the contrasts between privilege and poverty are marked, as shown in an OECD report of February 2015: Income inequality data update and policies impacting income distribution. The Equality Trust has also published a recent report, The Scale of Economic Inequality in the UK,…

We are celebrating some fantastic individual and group achievements in inspiring Adult Learners’ Week events and activities across the country. The ALW celebrations show that adult learning is a potent game-changer for many people who wouldn’t otherwise meet their potential. The overall national award winners and their achievements will be announced at a glittering event in London this evening.

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You’re likely to have heard by now that OccupyUAL was forced to leave their occupied space at CSM Tuesday 14th April. Management refused to meet any of our demands, but this does not mean that our fight has ended. Rather, it means that we KEEP FIGHTING HARDER.

In the words of suartspresident Shelly Asquith on C4 news, “we haven’t lost, we just haven’t won yet.”

This Saturday 25th April, OccupyUAL have organised a feeder march to begin at LCC at 12pm, to join the March for Free Education called by UCU. If you’re at all interested in OccupyUAL, defending free education, or the student movement more generally, come and march with us. We need noise, bodies and banners.