Tens of thousands of training places could be axed under plans to claw back £340m from England's further education and skills budget.A leaked government document suggests a proposal to axe at least 133,000 training places - some for the most deprived areas in the country. Adult apprenticeship budgets and further education college places are also being ear-marked for savings. The government said it was consulting on how best to make efficiency savings.
Tens of thousands of training places could be axed under plans to claw back £340m from England's further education and skills budget.
A leaked government document suggests a proposal to axe at least 133,000 training places - some for the most deprived areas in the country.
Adult apprenticeship budgets and further education college places are also being ear-marked for savings.
The government said it was consulting on how best to make efficiency savings.
won't see a cutback in the Defence budget will we ? No shortage of biscuits in the commons tearooms !! No taxes on parasitical bankers ? Nuclear power stations a-plenty.
But trianing ? No mate, too risky. keep to the Fen Causeway
</chicago economics> Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
