Extract from Queen's Speech debate (Commons) - June 27

Gareth Snell (Stoke-on-Trent Central) (Lab/Co-op):..In Stoke-on-Trent we have two fabulous colleges, Stoke-on-Trent College and City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College, both of which do exceptional work preparing the next generation of Stokies for work. However, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, while acknowledging the impact on technical education, said that the Government’s plan

“fails to do anything for the rest of post-16 education, which is extremely poorly funded, and where many courses are being cut.”

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