The following short film on cuts to adult learning in Liverpool was shown at yesterday’s successful fringe meeting at TUC Congress.

CALL Bulletin 11 is now available to download. This edition focuses reports of cuts to adult education across England as a result of funding and policy changes.

Download the bulletin here: CALL Bulletin 11 (doc, 301kb). Alternatively we have also made a version without graphics for a smaller file that is easier to distribute via email: CALL Bulletin 11 no graphics (doc, 54kb).

Please distribute the Bulletin as widely as possible.

CALL founder organisation has launched a petition to the Prime Minister to defend the funding to FE in the face of cuts to both adult and 14-19 provision across the UK.

The petition says:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to protect and maintain funding for the vital services that Further Education provides.

You can sign the petition on the Number 10 website here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/FE-Funding/

The WEA have produced a very useful summary presentation on the recent Government white paper in informal adult learning “The Learning Revolution“.

The presentation looks at the key proposals in the white paper and asks some pertinent questions to whether the paper offers adequate solutions to the problems that adult education faces.

You can download the presentation here (ppt, 103kb) or by clicking the image on the right.

Recently government spokespeople including the Secretary of State have been critical of the value of “holiday” Spanish courses being subsidised by the state.

Here is Senator (now President) Obama’s view of the value of language learning:

CALL Bulletin 10 is now available to download. This edition focuses on the a report on lobby of parliament and where next for the CALL campaign. Download the bulletin here: CALL Bulletin 10 (doc, 364kb). Alternatively we have also made a version without graphics for a smaller file that is easier to distribute via email: CALL Bulletin 10 no graphics (doc, 59kb).

Please distribute the Bulletin as widely as possible.

CALL Bulletin 9 is now available to download. This edition focuses on the lobby of Parliament on Wednesday the 25 February. Download the bulletin here: CALL Bulletin 9 (doc, 624kb). Alternatively we have also made a version without graphics for a smaller file that is easier to distribute via email: CALL Bulletin 9 no graphics (doc, 64kb).

Please distribute the Bulletin as widely as possible, see you on Wednesday!

A video made to help explain the issues in adult education and promoting the lobby on the 25th February.

CALL campaigners at Tower Hamlets College are building for the lobby on the Wednesday 25 February (see CALL Bulletin 8 for more details).  They held a meeting in the college last week and are now sending a letter to all students encouraging them to talk to their teachers about attending the lobby.

You can download the letter here (doc, 28kb) if you want to adapt it for your use locally.

Posters and flyers are now available for local CALL members to promote the lobby of Parliament on the 25 February. Click the links below to download the materials, all are available in full colour or black and white for easy reproduction. 

• A3 CALL Lobby poster: full colour (pdf, 438kb), black and white (pdf, 249kb)
• A4 CALL Lobby poster: full colour (pdf, 262kb), black and white (pdf, 165kb)
• CALL flyer: full colour (pdf, 209kb), black and white (pdf, 141kb)

Check the materials page for more campaign downloads to use locally.