the low-paid jobs in clerical admin istration will be the first to get sacked. Berkshire and Leeds are already laying off ancillary staff and clerical assistants.
The private sector, however does not need to feel too worried. When Tory Minister Barber intro duced his £182 million cutback he did not touch one penny of the are hailing it an a nifty way to seve 080,000 public money which pays for the education of the children of the rich, Direct grant schools now get an increase of I1 per cent on top of their central government grant Naturally Mr Prentice has kept up this policy of looking after the over-pampered children of the capitalist class.
Like the National Health Service, the education system is paid for out of the pockets of the working class. The Poulsons look to the public sector as a lucrative means of making a 'quick killing. The rapacious building firms gerry-build schools without any thought of safety. In the last few months at least 800 schools havc had to be inspected because builders used cheap quick-setting concrete instead of proper materials. At Sir John Cass School in Fast London the roof fell in five minutes after the teacher got the pupils out of the swimming pool! A further 200 school rools have been found to need immediate SLEED HER COITIC COLL mate, it would take E100 million just to make the present schools sate.
Governments-whether Tory or Labour have not been concerned with improving education. All they argue about is the size of the cuts.
to science graduates- posts which uation of soaring living costs. The 'incomes policies of both governments have had a dramatic effect employees living standards.
salary has dropped by 15 per cent.
Schoolkids in Coventry, it seems, have been asked to bring thair own paper to school. Supplies of this precious commodity are beyond the maans of the impove ished Coventry schools, and it is possible that existing stocks may run out altogether Well, there's always the bog walls. And kids in one Barley school are past a short tep away from that - their head has them doing their axercisms on the school:
in 1968. 25 per cent.
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concerns often offer better paid posts they find it difficult to refuse in a siton teachers" and other public sector participate in.
The value of a teacher's starting ince the beginning of the year. Tea chers need a £300 increase just to get back the living standard they enjoyed The effects of poor pay are devast build a united campaign ating. Teachers, particularly in the city centres, are constantly changing schools to get promotion. The teacher turnover in the London Borough of Breat is now 30 per cent, while in Eal- Tull picture of the consequences ing, Haringey and Harrow it averages At every level the capitalist crisis the crisis. is tearing apart the educational sys