Signed by 42,555 people, it is part of the #loveFE campaign that is being supported by a number of unions and education organisations.
The campaign group was created in February following the government’s announcement that funding for non-Apprenticeship learning in England would be cut by up to 24 per cent in 2015/16.
It comes after a paper by Professor Alison Wolf, the expert who the government commissioned to review vocational education in 2011, warned that the adult skills sector, not including Apprenticeships, is being squeezed at such a rate that it may “vanish into history”.
The report – Heading for the Precipice: Can further and higher education funding policies be sustained? – was published last week by the Policy Institute at King’s College London with support from the Gatsby Foundation.
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