Humberside cuts are savage enough: chester:
in adult literacy?
by one per night, but to increase the number of pupils in each class from six to eight or even 10. Yet in adult literacy small numbers are essential.
Apart from a guided we organised a meeting for all literacy interested people in Manchester A new need had been discovered that should be financed from new money.
committee 'to state publicly that no cuts will be made under any guise to up the Action Committee.
Yet despite these a further demonstration in Birmingham in February. Mention adult literacy to most people and they will give you a blank look. But in Manchester it is the fight for resources to teach adults to read and write which is providing the springboard for a wider fight against all cuts in education expenditure. And these * the Education Committee has announced that teacher training places are to be cut from 4,020 a year to only 1,950 by 1981 - a cut of 60 per cent;
* the Department of Education and Science has 'requested" the non-acceptance of 'rising fives into schools - this would affect 6,000 children in Man* in the University the cancellation of all building • What sort of cuts are being proposea union?
In the very week in which the BBC pro gramme on adult literacy On the Move started we were actually threatened with the closure of some of our classes. Not only were we asked to cut back classes atonal expansion As soon as we heard these threats penditure is?
teachers, students, volunteers and other omaticaly The 75 people who attended agreed that we did not want adult literacy expanded at the expense of other classes. energy.
We called on the Manchester education existing literacy provision, and we set Cutbacks affect all people. So we contacted the Students Union at Manchester University, which strongly supported our cause with money, the local Labour Parties, and we also have plans