Was Russell's reaction part of a wider bid to neuter opposition?
As a member of the board of management of a Glasgow college I watched the further education service develop into a vital access route to learning for adults and young people, many of them from the most frustrated and deprived parts of our cities ("Russell under fire for 'over-reaction' in college chief row", The Herald, November 16, and Letters, November 16-17).
As a member of the board of management of a Glasgow college I watched the further education service develop into a vital access route to learning for adults and young people, many of them from the most frustrated and deprived parts of our cities (\"Russell under fire for 'over-reaction' in college chief row\", The Herald, November 16, and Letters, November 16-17).
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Yet in the past two years the Scottish Government has imposed asymmetric cuts on post-school education, cuts which have slashed college budgets to protect higher education. I prefer not to speculate whether this is a cynical calculation over which the politically dispossessed will be less likely to cause a political fuss. The fact is that college budgets have been cut more savagely than those of any other part of the public sector in Scotland.
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Was Russell's reaction part of a wider bid to neuter opposition?
As a member of the board of management of a Glasgow college I watched the further education service develop into a vital access route to learning for adults and young people, many of them from the most frustrated and deprived parts of our cities ("Russell under fire for 'over-reaction' in college chief row", The Herald, November 16, and Letters, November 16-17).
Yet in the past two years the Scottish Government has imposed asymmetric cuts on post-school education, cuts which have slashed college budgets to protect higher education. I prefer not to speculate whether this is a cynical calculation over which the politically dispossessed will be less likely to cause a political fuss. The fact is that college budgets have been cut more savagely than those of any other part of the public sector in Scotland.
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