Sixth form college funding has been cut by 26% since 2010, leaving teachers and students in a desperate situation, struggling with more and more resources being cut. To add insult to injury, teachers are only being offered a 1% pay rise after enduring a 15% pay cut in real terms since 2010. Now 25 colleges have managed to beat the anti-trade union laws ridiculously high ballot thresholds and are out on strike, with more set to follow.
Education
Hackney BSix Students: The importance of Sixth form colleges
Film length: 8:40 As the government prepares to shut down specialist sixth form colleges across England, students at the BSix college in Hackney – a working class college with 80% black and ethnic minority students, […]
Education
Save Our Sixth Form Colleges!
Film length: 13:34 Sixth Form Colleges are under attack. The latest cuts mean almost a quarter of the funding for sixth form colleges has gone since 2010, and now new Government “Area Reviews” mean colleges […]
Education
Sixth Form funding: Teachers strike over government lies
Film length: 3:58 David Cameron says that funding for sixth form colleges is “protected” and that colleges will be “better funded.” He’s lying. The current cuts will mean funding has been cut by nearly a […]