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Education

Higher education tuition fees represent a wasteful money-go-round whereby a complex system of fees, loans and repayments has to be administered in place of grants to institutions.

At worst, they are part of a huge cut in education funding, and prevent all but the most well-off from getting an education.

Cutting education and training at a time of recession reduces any chance of a recovery, because the knowledge and skills won't exist in future, and instead there will be a larger pool of unemployed, disaffected young people to pay for.

PBP would restore the EMA and would replace student tuition fees with direct grants to education establishments.

Schools are wasting scarce resources

having to put out to tender contracts for work which used to be carried out by the Local Education Authorities.  Under successive Labour and Tory governments headteachers and governors have been given responsibility that most don't want and many are not able to cope with.

We are opposed to Michael Gove's "Free Schools" and the Academy programme which divert resources from state schools.

Thanks to Bird & Kuhn for the illustration.

London PBP Objectives

London People Before Profit co-ordinates the activities of People Before Profit groups in various London boroughs.

 

It will campaign to win seats on the Greater London Assembly with the aim of bringing public services back "in house".

 

Because we have only recently decided to contest elections outside Lewisham, we are still in the process of drawing up our manifesto for London, but you can download the Lewisham Manifesto, updated at our recent party conference, by going to our Downloads section - see left hand column

People Before Profit Meetings

  • New Cross: Thursday 10th May 7.30pm
  • Special housing activists meeting to review and plan the housing campaign. Harts Lane Studios, Harts Lane, SE14 (behind T K Maxx in New Cross)
  • New Cross: Mon 14th May 7.15pm:
  • Regular monthly meeting to discuss LPBP activity at Come the Revolution, 465 New Cross Road, opp Florence Road, SE14.
  • Woolwich: Tues 15th April 7.30pm
  • Full meeting of Greenwich PBP at Rose's Bar, 49 Hare Street, Woolwich, SE18  Regular Greenwich PBP meeting to discuss housing, election, library campaign.
  • Catford: Weds 23rd May 8.00-10.00pm:
  • Informal get-together for people interested in getting involved over a drink in the London & Rye, 109 Rushey Green, Catford SE6 4AF

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