Cuts and closures

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• Public sector strike - in pictures

  10 Jul 2014: Public sector workers are staging a nationwide one-day strike over pay, pensions, jobs and spending cuts

• Labour needs to be candid about the painful cuts it will have to make

  15 Jun 2014: Andrew Rawnsley: Behind the scenes, Labour's Treasury team has begun to identify how it would squeeze spending to balance the books if the party were to win power

• If it was a 'tough choice' to cut my job, then come and tell the children why

  1 May 2014: Dave Pickering: Thanks to austerity, many kids in Enfield will now be missing my songs and stories – but it's the poorest who will miss them most

• How young people's lives have been destroyed by the cuts

  17 Mar 2014:

  If you were to line up every unemployed young person in Britain, they would stretch from London to Edinburgh. Emma Howard meets some of those who are struggling

• Early years education cuts irresponsible, experts warn

  21 Feb 2014: Childhood specialists say closure of council-run nurseries and children's centres risks long-term damage to the most vulnerable

• Pressure grows for U-turn on education cuts said to hit the vulnerable hardest

  4 Feb 2014: Janet Murray visits the college thought to be the hardest hit by cuts to funding for 18-year-olds

• Tony Abbott's austerity-like measures will hit poorer communities the hardest

  22 Jan 2014: Jim Chalmers: The extreme budget cuts put forward by the Abbott government will hit communities like mine especially hard, greatly heightening the risk of future rising joblessness

• Shetland families furious over decision to shut Out Skerries school

  22 Jan 2014: Scottish ministers clear way for closure of secondary school serving population of 73, forcing pupils to board in Lerwick

• Warning that fund for poorer students faces £200m cutback

  14 Jan 2014: Treasury targets cash for disadvantaged students as Labour says coalition is punishing the poorest again

• Education protests challenge the market – which makes them a target

  24 Dec 2013: Michael Chessum: The experience of the education sector in its opposition to marketisation fits a historical pattern of political policing

• Why the privatisation of student debt must be resisted

  27 Nov 2013: Michael Chessum: When student loans are sold off, the door is left open to repayment conditions changing. The government's assurances are worth nothing

• Education cuts interactive: what are the consequences?

  Interactive, 30 Oct 2013:

  Spending on UK education could be cut by a fifth without harming schooling standards according to a report by the think-tank Reform. This interactive shows what would happen if their proposal were to become policy.

• An open letter to Nick Clegg on universities

  13 Sep 2013: Michael Chessum, Hannah Webb and Mike Shaw: Despite your promises in 2010, we are witnessing the transformation of a public service into a luxury. It's time for direct action

• Martin Rowson on the Conservative agenda

  Cartoon, 9 Aug 2013:

  Immigration, relations with Spain, public sector cuts and the welfare system have been on the Conservative party agenda.

• Neither private sector nor state want to pay for higher education – so who will?

  1 Jul 2013:

  The economy, business and industry benefit from a thriving university sector – yet tax-avoiding companies allow it to wither, writes Peter Scott

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