When will the cuts happen?

When this has been handed out people have been asking about the precise timetable for the cuts. In some cases – as with university fees – this has been specified in the last budget (students starting 2012); in others it hasn’t, and isn’t clear. There has not, for instance, been any public notice we were able to find specifying when EMA would be cut. The idea’s floating around that it could be after Christmas but the only semi-official thing to mention it that we could find was this article by an FE NUS type. He doesn’t cite any sources so in the cirumstances we should just admit that we don’t know. But it’s unlikely to be until next year at the earliest, if not the same year as £9k fees, 2012.

We want to try and clarify the timing of some of the other reforms mentioned in the text ‘decline’. We’ll try to over the next few days.