This week our close friends at UCU launched a new organisation - Make Education Count Westminster.
The network aims to bring together key players from across the political divide including MPs, peers, local politicians, unions and other key stakeholders, including CUSN.
UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: “We look forward to thrashing out the best way forward for the UK with politicians from all parties who have a genuine passion for education.”
The launch came the same week as the union released statistics suggesting that the UK has “dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables”, being overtaken by Portugal, New Zealand, Austria, Switzerland, Korea, Ireland, Greece, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
At CUSN we are constantly working with UCU and other partners in education to ensure that the wellbeing needs of those who work in adult, further and higher education – which, as well as being important in themselves, are also a critical ingredient to the improvement of standards of learning in the UK – are included in the dialogue around education. As a result, we’re very please to have the opportunity to do so through Make Education Count Westminster.
You can find out more at their website at http://makeeducationcount.org.uk/
