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Perhaps the worst deal is faced by students training to be teachers. They are finding that as a group they are a bit thin on the ground these days Government decisions to slash teaching targets, have led to the closure of 13 Colleges of Education. Not only are less teachers being trained, but Local Education Authorities are also tightening their purse strings by cutting down on staff in the schools, forcing many young teachers to tne cole queues Other savings that Local Educaon Authoritiecare making haup lar are finding that they too face the harsh reality of continued cutough to be in halls of residence will soon find their grant increase to cuts in discretionary awards and adult education courses. The Knife is being dug in hard into education alongside all the other social services, at a time when finding any sort of job is becoming increasingly difficult.
Students last year put up a tough fight against education cutbacks and the low level of the grant by occupying their colleges, going on rent strike, and demonstrating for an equal grant lor all students. Some company stood by and deliberately allowed student rent strikers at Lancaster and Warwick to be dealt with by the police.
The "Broad Left' leadership of the NUS has begun to wake up to the idea that students on their own lack the economic power to reverse the policies of the Labour Governthe initiatives that sections of the trade union bureaucracy are organising in defence of education, notably the lobby of Parliament on 21 October called by the South-East region of the TUC back this up by forging links with in the lobby is also the Council for the Conservative Party among its October lobby.
ment. They want students to suppor NUS areas at a local level are to fession'. trades councils in their area. Involved Educational Advance, which includes
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backs in education spending by the Labour Government. Cuts in building programmes and the general lack of housing will mean that many students will have nowhere to live. Those lucky en-
of £l35 eaten away by rents that have gone up by as much as - by Val Coultas —