The federal government has said they need to maintain colleges open however what’s the plan so as to take action? What measures are being taken to make sure that, ought to training employees be required to isolate, there’s a community of provide lecturers able to step in?
There’s a nationwide marketing campaign for a military of NHS volunteers, however not for training. Why is the same military of retired lecturers or Ofsted inspectors not being recruited to help colleges struggling to deal with staffing necessities?
Can we not have the identical imaginative and prescient, the identical ardour, the identical useful resource provision, for the training service as we do for the Nationwide Well being Service?
Regardless of the federal government’s assurances, it appears to me we’re transferring, sadly, in direction of de facto faculty closures. I urge ministers to show in any other case.