Adult Education

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 March 1984.

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Photo of Mr Jack Dormand Mr Jack Dormand , Easington 12:00, 6 March 1984

How does the Minister reconcile the reduction of 27 per cent. in these years in the teaching cost subsidy in the university departments with the request by the Department of Education and Science to those departments to maintain the programmes at their present levels? Does not the Minister realise that the Government are destroying the valuable work being done in adult and continuing education, not least for the unemployed and for people who are desperate for a second opportunity in education?