It begins:Schools urged to save £750m costs

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

If the Tories get in, it will be worse that is gurranteed, they will want to cut as much as possible to make more money for themself.

Arthur's vision of the Tories, with the Labour Party in the background .....

Oh yes the wonderful Labour party that did away with the grants system and saddled our young people with lifelong debts instead..oh yes the bastions of education.

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[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8379911.stm



Staff cuts are already planned in many of the schools I work in..

There are none planned in the schools I work in.

I work at a University, and we have been forewarned by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) to expect reduced income from them - we have been planning for reduced expenditure for the last year, and for the next couple of years.

i do think it is a good idea for schools to group together and "haggle" a price with suppliers,they will probably find that most suppliers will be happy to do this if guaranteed a contract ,BUT if the schools make savings this should not be taken of next years budget it should be left and the school allowed to use it for new equipment.I know times are hard but excessive cutting of frontline services is not acceptable .

Originally Posted by Flyboy

There are none planned in the schools I work in.

Yet!

[Flyboy]

Well, they are both advertising for LSAs and one is advertising for a SENCO and a extra year five/six class teacher, to float between the two years and to take extra literacy groups. It's part-time position, but there are no signs of redundancies yet. I am not saying that it may happen, but for now, it doesn't appear to be that bad.

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Well, they are both advertising for LSAs and one is advertising for a SENCO and a extra year five/six class teacher, to float between the two years and to take extra literacy groups. It's part-time position, but there are no signs of redundancies yet. I am not saying that it may happen, but for now, it doesn't appear to be that bad.

As soon as I heard the sums that this government had 'borrowed' to sort out the recession I knew that education would be hard hit.So will the NHS.

[Flyboy]

And you don't think it will be better under "Dave," (or Clegg for that matter) do you?

Originally Posted by Maggy J

As soon as I heard the sums that this government had 'borrowed' to sort out the recession I knew that education would be hard hit.So will the NHS.

bet the gov still get their jollies

they could try cutting back here http://www.conservatives.com/News/Ne...iven_cars.aspx

or here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...r-Big-Ben.html

Originally Posted by Flyboy

And you don't think it will be better under "Dave," (or Clegg for that matter) do you?

Shouldn't that be "Clegg"?

[rogerdraig]

Originally Posted by Taf

Around here, schools have been closed, are soon to be closed, playing fields about to be sold for housing (the very expensive sort)... all because "student numbers are falling"... but mainly because there is a £50million black hole in the school maintenance budget.

Pupils are being forced to travel further and further as local schools for all ages close in high population areas.... but no school buses except for religious and Welsh-language schools!

Another thing going on is closure of an English language school, only for it to reopen after major works as "a much-demanded Welsh language school". Not demanded at all by the local population I can assure you....

have to take issue with not wanted ( welsh schools ) all the ones i know of are already working above capacity waiting for other schools to be built converted to bring numbers back to what they should be for the school

Originally Posted by Flyboy

And you don't think it will be better under "Dave," (or Clegg for that matter) do you?

Nope!