Campaigners have organised a public meeting to oppose cuts to adult education classes at Craigoyston Community High School. Adult education has always been a key element of life at the local high school – indeed, it’s seen by many as the ‘community’ in ‘community high school’ – but budget cuts now see adult education classes under threat (writes Dave Pickering).
The meeting takes place at the school on Tuesday at 3.30pm.
An online petition at www.change.org has already attracted almost 200 signatures and campaigners now hope to broaden that support.
The change.org petition reads:
‘Day Time Adult Education classes are under threat across the City of Edinburgh. We at Craigroyston Community High School are campaigning to save our day time classes.
There has been a change in the way money raised through lets and classes is allocated. Rather than the money going to the school it will now go directly to The City of Edinburgh Council.
This undermines the incentive for schools to run Adult Day Time classes and this will have a profound impact on Adult Learners.
Please support our Campaign to save Adult Education Day Time classes not only at Craigroyston Community High School but city wide as well.’
Vanessa Cousins, who initiated the local campaign, said: “Thank you everyone for signing up to our campaign – the response has been really encouraging. I am also setting up a Facebook page called Adult Learners Unite and I hope that this and our public meeting at the school will highlight our concerns even more. It’s important that we get the message about as widely as possible – we are short of time as changes could be taking effect as soon as April.”
Dave Pickering
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