P-04-458 Keep Further Education in the Public Sector

Petition wording:

We call upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to ensure:

1. Further education, along with publicly funded assets, is retained within the public sector.

 2. Colleges continue to be bound by the national agreements in FE, such as the national pay scales.

3. The introduction of an all-Wales contract for FE lecturers.

4. Welsh Ministers do not dissolve colleges and give colleges the ability to transfer the property, rights and liabilities to another body.

Petition raised by:UCU Crosskeys Branch

Date petition first considered by Committee: 19 February 2013

Number of signatures: 246