LATEST COMMENTS
All the comments below have been made by other people signing the petition. There are 146 signatures so far.
Atma Trasi:
"I am an OAP and attending adult education classes helps keep me healthy physically and mentally."
Helen Collier:
"Adult and Community education can be a very important step to re-engage people with learning and ispire people to go further"
Julie Briggs:
"It is all very well saying public money cannot be used for such things, but we all work hard and pay in to the tax system and SHOULD Therefore all be able to benefit from it - Balance is what is needed not total focus on only one age group. Learning is about more than just money and employability!!!! Peoples work/life balance and physical and emotional health will all be affected by these cuts."
J Gladstone:
"These courses are needed for people like myself who are wanting a change in career. I have found the 30 week course I have been attending this year- Working With Children to be really useful in deciding where I want to go with my career."
Valerie Thompson:
"Adult education is one of the most important service a city can offer to the people who were let down as children at school and home, they come to college because they want to learn "
Andrew Dundas:
"Bradford Council's million pound incentive for Serco Education Bradford attempts to steer schools away from providing education for all children's needs to providing intensive pressure on a small number who can scrape through to 5 GCSEs at A* - C grades. Every child at every level of attainment should be supported according to their needs not the wish of CBMDC to swank about some increase in students passing its arbitrary target."
Thelma Budd:
"Short-sighted to put money into exam courses only. There is also a social aspect to learning a subject just for interest."
David Anderson:
"Does this Governmnent want a 'knowledge economy' or not?"
Elizabeth Holdsworth:
"Adults do want to learn and should not have these opportunities taken away from them. I prefer to teach adults who are enthuiastic about learning instead of alot of 16-19 year olds who are only in college for EMA or because schools won't have them back."
Jackie Porritt:
"lifelong learning should mean exactly that. Who are this Government to decide what we do or do not deserve to learn?"
Julie Warden:
"Adults need stepping stones to build confidence towards going for a level 2 qual. Even if they have a level 2 qual it might not be in an area of use. Adult interest is important socially and if these services are removed they the government will end up spending more on other services such as mental health and the justice service."
anne shirley mitchell:
"extremely dissappointed at the cutbacks."
Mrs Glenda Wales:
"If the present pattern continues then there will be no such thing as adult education. The Colleges are only managing to survive by taking on work from schools where the school staff cannot cope with many teenagers bad behavior. Opportunities for adult education for business skills appears no longer viable. As for whole life learning that idea has gone down the pan. Very sad indeed."
Jessica Robinson:
"I have attended a wine appreciation course this year in Ilkley. It has been a great way to meet new people and learn new skills. It is vital that adult education is aimed at everyone - not just those who need to get a job!"
Cathy Henwood:
"as some one who works part time and has a special needs son, my adult ed pottery class provides some very important me time, Fees when up last year - next years proposals would put the course out of most of our groups price range. Many older people also atteded the group - it provides a huge social service as well as life long learning."
Christine Barnes:
"I and many others would willingly pay to do courses, why turn us away?"
Maggie Eisner:
"In my 24 years as a GP in Shipley I have been impressed by the contribution that adult education can make to a person's mental health, self esteem and general wellbeing. Cutting adult education will lose a precious resource. It may be a false economy - if I didn't have to respect patient confidentiality, I could name at least 20 people who would be on antidepressants if it wasn't for adult education."
J Horsman:
"I studied in Bradford as an adult. My life would be dire now had i not had that opportunity."
Katy Gold:
"I'm supporting this because the same thing's happening in London. Tomorrow's under-stimulated, bored old people will need more health & social services. What about "Education, Education, Education"?"
Joyce Robertshaw:
"Education is important for all ages, it enhances people's lives in many respects. I am now a pensioner and the classes keep social isolation at bay."
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