Can further adult education survive the current cuts? Last month the government got the axe out again and announced its intention to hack a whopping 25 per cent from the Adult Skills Budget, which funds non-academic post-19 education. Further education was deeply wounded as it was, with a third of its budget already severed since the 2010 election.
The situation is sufficiently critical for the Association of Colleges to worry that adult further education will be a thing of the past by 2020 if cuts continue at their present rate. Already there are one million fewer adults in classrooms and workshops than there were in 2010.
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