£400m extra for armed forces for Healey swung his axe yet again against those who are rapidly becoming his favourite target. His Christmas present chileren was yet more education cuts, with a lolai oiLos mion to oe sliced off education spending over the next two years.
These are just the latest in a long line of education cuts imposed by Healey and the Labour Government.
August ernment announced that 12 colleges of further education were to be cut.
rebruary White Paper on public penditure sliced 11.033.3 million off. education spending over the following three vears intention was to secure of university and polytechnic school and other building programmes, and cut-back in book and equipment provisions.
In July 1976 Healey's cuts slashed a further £45 million off the education budget. The principal targets were universities and school buildings.
In November 1976 the Labour Government announced 30 more. colleges were to close. Gordon Oakes, 'ME AND MY PARENTS are saving as hard as we can to buy me out of this rotten life. The only regret I have is that they will get more money fortheir murder maChine. That was how a recent -OTe O Our Sorcer subscribers began.
He needn't worry too much. Despite all the shrieks from the right-wing press and retired coloneis must week. me cabour-toyernment has just added 1400m to defence spending.
Now watch closely. This is how they did it. On Tuesday they Minister of State for education, also said that £39 million WaS TO De CurIonocal coulex- cil education expenditure. The Government's Education Bill published dudea to te chopping list by saying that in future capped childrer Would taught in ordinary schools.
On top of all this. local councils have been tryina to implement their own cuts policy. For instance, November 1975 the Education Committee of County Council cuts OT million.
The consequences of both these and Healey's latest cuts hardly need spelling out. For the school children it means over-crowded classrooms, dilThe training our men get in the streets of Belfast is inestimably valuable' - British GOC, Sir Frank King.
The total defence budget for 19/b/11 now stands at a massive £6,140m. Defence expenditure in Britain as a percentage of Gross was 5.7 cent last year, higher than anywhere else in Western apart from Greece and Portugal.
This is not surprising, that just one of the Multi-Role Combat Aireraft being developed or me armer forces coss tum (enough to pay for the construction of 50 new primary schools), and that Britain wants 385 of them.
avidated buildinos and a serious shortage of otner eouioment It is not only standards which are hit. The same month, other major effect of the cuts handi- National Union estimates that there are now 20,000 teachers unemployed and the Government ready cut back 7,000 higher education. in But as all this Gloucester place, James Callaghan himannounced self entered the 'great debate £1 educational complain that not enough attention was beina paid to the teaching of science and mathCHales survey conducted earlier this month by the NUT, 13 out of armed revolution in Eastern Europe, it also acts as a policeman for the Western European working class.
per 1967 colonels' Greece was based on the NATO Europe "Plan Prometheus.
While NATO waits to flex its given muscles against the latest bogey of Euro-Communism, British soldiers at least are already getting a piece of the action. our men get in the streets of Belfast is inestimably valuable', says the British Chief of Staff in Northern -Cover books and way Gan De louon September education cuts. teachers FlIC of Teachers has al jobs in Healey's policies of was taking unemployment.
StancaTes to ing ane Tore ano mme resu vis as well. threat of countercoup in people know to their cost.
Pleasing enough "The training Sir Frank King.
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