MP speaks out as Institute for Fiscal Studies says colleges have been squeezed the hardest under Tories
Funding per student aged 16–18 has seen the biggest squeeze of all stages of education for young people in recent years, according to a new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
School sixth forms have faced budget cuts of 21% per student since their peak in 2010–11, while further education and sixth-form college funding per student has fallen by roughly 8% over the same period.
By 2019–20, funding per young person in further education will be around the same as in 2006–07: only 10% higher than it was 30 years earlier.
Spending per student in school sixth forms will be lower than at any point since at least 2002.
Stephen has been working with the Association of Colleges to listen to concerns, better understand the situation in Portsmouth, and lobby Ministers for extra cash.
Stephen Morgan MP, said:
“The Government is leaving our city’s young people behind. You simply cannot cut a college budgets by almost a quarter and expect there to be no consequences for students and staff.
The Tories have gutted our colleges’ resources on a shocking scale, they clearly don’t care a jot about Portsmouth pupils.
As I’ve said at PMQs, education cuts don’t heal. The Government must urgently reverse these devastating cuts or accept they’re jettisoning the futures of Portsmouth’s talented youth in the name of austerity.”
