Students, staff and trade unions are calling for a day of action to save the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) on Monday, 13th December. Colleges and sixth-forms nationally will be holding lunchtime protests against government plans to cut EMA.
We stand in solidarity with all those protesting EMA cuts tomorrow, and we’d like to reiterate our demand that our Vice-Chancellor, Eric Thomas, write and send an open letter to the Government condemning cuts in the education budget and appealing to them not to implement these policies, and to publicly call for Vice-Chancellors across the country to unite against these cuts, any rise in tuition fees and the removal of Educational Maintenance Allowance and Aimhigher.
