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UK further and higher education staff suffer attacks on pay and conditions Educators throughout the further education sector who have been returning to schools since the beginning of March are facing pay cuts, job losses and increased workloads as employers attempt to place the economic burden of the pandemic on the working class. University staff and students on strike in defence of their pay, conditions and pensions at University College London in 2019 (credit: WSWS media) Several strikes hav...

THIS July, as things stand, Newton Rigg College will close its doors for the last time, bringing an end to 125 years of learning. Generations of farmers have cut their agricultural teeth on what has been described as the ‘Pride of Cumbria’. The county is the second largest producer of both red meat and milk in the country. It’s flagship seat of learning could soon disappear. The success of former students in farming and other business cannot be measured, but what can is the anger ...

‘Newton Rigg is a vital part of the agriculture sector’ says top business leader – sign our petition to help save college 05/04/2021 Business leaders and trade unionists have come together to condemn a move by York-based Askham Bryan College to close its campus at Newton Rigg. The Yorkshire college plans to sell off the Penrith campus and its assets to bolster its own flagging finances. But supporters from the business and trades union sector said this week that Newton Rigg had s...

Newton Rigg Campus THE closure of Cumbrias only agricultural college has been condemned by trade union leaders as an act of educational vandalism. A motion condemning the sell-off of Newton Rigg College at Penrith was passed at last weekend’s Northern TUC Conference, moved and seconded by Penrith and the Border Labour Party members Iain Owens and Karen Lockney. The conference condemned the decision of owners, Askham Bryan College, York, supported by the FE Commissioner and the Departmen...

Newton Rigg campus. THE closure of Cumbrias only agricultural college has been condemned by trade union leaders as an act of educational vandalism. A motion condemning the sell-off of Newton Rigg College at Penrith was passed at last weekend’s Northern TUC Conference, moved and seconded by Penrith and the Border Labour Party members Iain Owens and Karen Lockney. The conference condemned the decision of owners, Askham Bryan College, York, supported by the FE Commissioner and the Departme...

A PARLIAMENTARY inquiry has left MPs with a clear impression that land-based education needs to continue at closure-hit Newton Rigg College in Penrith. Following a one-off evidence session on land-based education provision in England, MPs on the House of Commons’ EFRA Committee are to raise concerns about national delivery of education for agriculture and the environment, which includes continued land-based education provision at Newton Rigg. During the evidence session, Tim Whittaker, ...

Newton Rigg chiefs face grilling by MPs Newton Rigg Education chiefs who decided to close Newton Rigg College will face a grilling from MPs later this month at a Parliamentary inquiry. Bosses from Askham Bryan, which announced it was closing the land-based education campus near Penrith last year, will be called as witnesses on Tuesday, March 23 in front of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. The committee will hold the one-off session on land-based education, with a focus on Newt...

A FORMER Principal of Askham Bryan College has challenged the controversial decision to sell off its campus in Penrith. Liz Philip, who ran the York college from 2007 to 2016, said she felt real sadness over the closure and sale of the Newton Rigg campus, which was situated in a rich agricultural county with some very strong agricultural students. She also questioned why student numbers there were allowed to fall so much after she departed. She said: "In 2015/16, which was my last year,...

HELPING OUT Student Megan Blareau mucks out at Wetheriggs OFFICERS and volunteers at Wetheriggs Animal Rescue Centre say they have been bowled over by the thousands of pounds which have poured in after their dire financial plight was highlighted two weeks ago. The centre started selling “virtual tickets” – which could be redeemed for a free visit when it re-opens after Covid-19 restrictions are lifted – to help fill its coffers, but staff never expected the extent of the response. Mo...

Newton Rigg. A CUMBRIAN peer is calling on all MPs in the county to help push for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the closure of Newton Rigg College. Lord Dale Campbell Savours says he has been inundated with calls from the Cumbrian rural community calling on him to help save the Penrith campus due to close this summer. "If all the MPs in the county joined forces to push the Defra Select Committee to hold an inquiry into how the college has been run by owners Askham Bryan College, then we st...