Adult learning faces funding cuts which will affect courses in Burngreave. ESOL in particular, will no longer be free from learners who are not on job related benefits. This will affect a large number of learners in the area. Course funding for adult learning from the Council is at a stand still but courses will no longer be delivered by Council tutors and the work will be commissioned later in 2011.
These pages will be updated with the latest news about the local campaign against the changes and cuts in adult learning.
You can support the campaign by:
signing the online petition on the Council website
downloading the paper petition below and returning the signed copies to CALL, c/o WEA Sheffield Learning Centre, 3 Vicarage Road, Sheffield, S9 3RH
or contact the Sheffield CALL (Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning) campaign sheffieldcall@hotmail.co.uk
Support Action for ESOL http://actionforesol.org/ and sign the petition http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/defend-esol.html. Find out about local activities on Day of Action for ESOL on 24th March here: https://archive.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/archives/april-2011-issue/esol-day-of-actio n/
follow national developments on the National Association for Teaching English and Other Community Languages to Adult NATECLA http://www.natecla.org.uk/ and the National Institute for Continuing Adult Education NIACE http://www.niace.org.uk/
