NASUWT: Coalition’s claim of increasing university places ‘risible’
NASUWT: Coalition's claim of increasing university places 'risible'
Commenting on the A-level results, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“Once again the hard work and commitment of young people and their teachers has secured sustained improvements in the results overall, building on the rising standards of achievement over the last decade.
“These achievements render even more appalling the Coalition Government’s dismantling of the 14-19 education strategy which secured these improvements, its limiting of the chances of disadvantaged young people by scrapping the EMA, and its damaging economic austerity policy, which will leave young people, regardless of their A level grades, facing bleak future employment and education prospects.
“It is scandalous that when we have such record levels of success the Coalition is reducing the opportunities for young people to access university to develop the higher level skills the economy needs.
“The Coalition’s claim that it is increasing the number of university places is risible when the real truth is that they took the decision last year to halve the number of additional places that would be available in 2011, abandoning the last government’s guarantee of 20,000 new university places.”
ENDS
Stuart Gannon
NASUWT Press Office
Tel: 020 7420 9681
Mobile (and out of hours contact): 07966 198894
Address: 5 King Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8SD
The largest teachers' union in the UK
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