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THE Cambs Times and Wisbech Standard has launched a major campaign to convince the Government that funding for the College of West Anglia should not be axed.
We are very angry that the Government is attempting to back-track on their commitment to fund the new college and this is reflected in the campaign banner. We need the Government to sit up and take notice and we hope you will sign the petition.
The petition will be delivered to 10 Downing Street by pupils from Fenland schools accompanied by campaign supporters and MP Malcolm Moss.
LABOUR S Parliamentary spokesman for North East Cambridgeshire has rejected claims that funding decisions for new colleges had been taken for political reasons. All 13 of the college projects that will receive Learning and Skills Council funding are in La... Full Story »
15:46 - 29 June 2009
THE Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council has promised to fight and reverse the Government decision to not provide funding for the College of West Anglia s March build. Fenland councillor Jill Tuck said: We will do all we can to try and reverse this de... Full Story »
12:40 - 29 June 2009
MALCOLM Moss MP and Fenland District Council leader Geoff Harper have slammed the Government after it emerged the 13 colleges receiving funding are in Labour-controlled areas. The Learning and Skills Council last week announced that 13 colleges would rece... Full Story »
09:52 - 29 June 2009
COLLEGE of West Anglia principal David Pomfret has confirmed there is no immediate likelihood of securing funding to start the building project in March. As we revealed on Friday, the college failed in its attempt to secure capital funding to start buil... Full Story »
16:21 - 26 June 2009
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The College of West Anglia has been unsuccessful in its attempt to secure £70million of funding from the Learning and Skills Council for its March campus project. The failure could again cast the project into serious doubt.... Full Story »
09:34 - 06 April 2009
A REVIEW into the collapse of the Government s college building programme- which has jeopardised Fenland s £70million super campus- concluded the whole scheme was predictable and probably avoidable . Sir Andrew Foster s report into the delays which saw 1... Full Story »
16:13 - 02 April 2009
FENLAND S Labour spokesman has described the College of West Anglia s proposed campus as the lynchpin in raising our generations future aspirations. Peter Roberts, Labour spokesman for North East Cambridgeshire, says he is also waiting for the Governme... Full Story »
13:18 - 02 April 2009
THE deafening silence coming from Government over the monstrous decision to stall the Learning and Skills Council s college programme has an air of incredulity about it. For the Government to step away from responsibility for the quango they fund is an a... Full Story »
11:00 - 01 April 2009
THE Cambs Times is today on March market place collecting YOUR signatures to force a Government u-turn on funds for Fenland s super college. Last week, we launched the Where s Our Bloody College Campaign, with the support of Fenland District... Full Story »
13:23 - 27 March 2009
BY THE EDITOR AN astonishing outpouring of anger greeted the news that the thoroughly disgraced Learning and Skills Council has been forced to call a halt to the new March campus of the College of west Anglia. NEVER mind that some people in Wisbech might... Full Story »
16:52 - 26 March 2009
FURIOUS education, council and business leaders last night pledged immediate support to our campaign to get the £70 million super college for Fenland back on track. Even though contracts had been awarded and work was about to start, funding proposals a ne... Full Story »
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