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Leeds FRIDAY 17th MAY 198 The next issue of Leeds Student comes out on 31st May StudentINDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER NAB teacher training plans leadI to cuts elm••■■ Raw deal for YTS at Leeds Gov't nabs College A row has broken out over the exploitation of Youth Training Scheme students on day release courses at Park Lane College. The students are on a business and Administration course which is intended to Poly places provide a knowledge of busi- ness theory for a work place- ment in industry or adminis- tration. Though in reality Government proposals for extra teacher training places they have been washing cars could lead to department cuts in polytechnic\ nationwide and selling books. with Leeds Poly reducing places at the Law School and The students had initially Carnegie. complained that they were bored with the teaching The National Advisory Body Further and Higher Education methods of the course and told the Polys in April that the lectures trade union, branch the tutors agreed to make it number of teacher trainees secretary, Brian Whittington more practical. So they set should be increased between called the proposals 'robbing up a car washing firm and a t986.and 1989 but that no extra Peter to pay Paul' and was ex- hook shop. money will he available to fund tremely concerned about the Meryl Cunliffe. the Exter ibis. lf these plans are. fol- w ale' implications of polys nal Affairs Officer of Park lowed, Leeds Poly will be train- being asked to expand courses Lane Student Union de- ing 300 extra teachers by 1992. without provision of funds. scribed how five girls in the inevitably at the cost of other Despite Sir Keith Joseph's hook selling business were departments. support for a larger supply of given the task of cataloging The Government Depart- teachers. North Riding College lust ten books. ment of Science and Education of Education in Scarborough. "It was a complete waste working through the NAB, has exclusively a 'teacher training of time", she said, effectively stipulated a change college, is threatened with clo- Union President. Pete in the balance of education. sure. This would mean the loss Cheung, added that other Art and humanities subjects of 121 teaching and non- trainees spent one day a such as Law, Social Studies, teaching jobs and 585 student week in a mock supermar- Accounting and Applied Eco- places following the informa- ket, selling items to one nomics have been outlined as tion that intake of students to another. non-priority subjects and will the college in 1986 proposed by "The scheme is expected be the departments at Leeds NAB will be nil. to provide a decent training Poly that will suffer cuts if any Frank Wright, the Principal but it seems that they are have to he made. of the college could not under- just being made use of", he LPSU President. Bill Cooke stand the plan and said the col- said. commented, "It's ludicrous, lege will fight back hard. He Leeds City Council Press but that's the sort of thing this thought it was not a question of Officer, Mrs. Hardy, said government goes". money or priorities but simply that the ideas for the work The proposals were initially that the government had said had come from the trainees. made by Sir Keith Joseph after some colleges must go and She said that no action an inquiry revealed that the NAB pointed at North Riding. Would be taken by thc Coun- supply of teachers is insuffi- Mr. Wright said, "NAB could cil against the scheme. cieht. NAB has protested ab- hardly say 'Sir Keith wants his Meryl Cunliffe said that out the lack of provision of pound of flesh and you're going part of the problem was funds by the government for to give it to him' so they accus- overcrowding. "The College the expanded teacher training sed our college of being too accepts many people from project. However, it has been isolated. The truth is. anything the YTS but Park. Lane is Peaceful protest obliged to act as the voice of North of Watford and they just not making any money from the DES and inform the Poly of don't want to know", this". she said. the plans for the future. North Riding College spe- Peaceful protest against the the leaflets and it was a very "We had a survey which Union Presidency of Nation- peaceful and successful de- Mrs. Dorma Urwin of NAB cialises in training primary shows that 90% of the YTS school teachers which is an area al Front member Jayne monstration, with an un- said, "With no extra resources students felt pressurised into Buford of Harrogate F.E. necessarily large police pre- (for teacher training), this can in high demand and 97 of the doing courses", she con- College was made last week. sence". only mean a reduction in intake students get jobs at the end of tinued. An estimated 20)0 peo- The only trouble which elsewhere". their training. Catherine Cuthbert ple. which included a strong threatened to marr the pro- Nafthe, the Public Sector Joanna Walters Leeds delegation, marched ceedings were a group of around Harrogate city cen- drunken skinhead youths tre distributing leaflets to the shouting abuse and making local population. The Pub- 'Sieg Heil' salutes. This was Lecturers threaten strikes lic's reaction to those leaf- stopped by the police. lets, which expressed disgust Speakers at a rally in- offer w hich is 1% above the cluded L.U.U. General One-day strikes, refusals to by University lecturers to re- at N.F. policies and pointed mark examinations and a with- verse the erosion of their salar- salary element of the recurrent out that it was 45 years since Secretary, Marcus Sheff. grant. The AUT wants a joint The main thrust of his drawal from public bodies ies. the collapse of the Nazi reg- could he part of the Associa- The Union's council meets in approach to Ministers on the i speech was: "If the holo- me in Germany, was de- tion of University Teachers' Glasgow next week and will pay issue but the employers scribed by Chairperson of caust is to mean anything, it general strategy if the plans get make the final decision on have refused to separate it from the Labour Club Rob Min- means it shall never happen the go-ahead from its mem- whether to go-ahead with the this year's settlement. shull as 'favourable'. "Peo- again". bers. ballot. ple were very keen to take Tina Ogle This is part of the campaign The AUT has rejected a 4% Julie Smith ANIMAL Four page travel THE CLASH IN Plus complete RIGHTS pullout on centre LEEDS What's on Guide INSIDE Pg.4 pages. Pg 11 in Leeds. PAGE TWO NEWS PROTESTORS IN 24-HOUR VIGIL 11111AlertnlailM... r rsamissemsret The annual twenty-four vigil 11 3 01 JA.r.' GUILTY l NN 9111111111= was held by animal rights pro- Ura411111011 Ia The following people have testors over the weekend on not yet paid in their spon- the Parkinson steps in an • sor money for the Rag hitch attempt to highlight their anti- 1 to Paris: vivisectionist campaign. 11V011111111101r- a rallg;0 C. Anderson, D. Ashcroft, Members of Leeds Universi- J. Bailey, P. Barrett, ty and Polytechnic Animal J. Bird, M. Blythe, J. Prince. Rights joined ranks on the 10th M. Bower. C. Brown, P. and 1 Ith of April to gather Bulleyment, S. Caton, C. support for a petition urging for Cawkwell, R. Colley, R. new measures to protect aaim- Cowey. S. Crawe, M. als from the effects of medical Crofts, S. Davis, N. experiments. Deacon, M. Delany. C. The group worked to draw Denton, A. Elstols, E. public attention to medical vi- Flack, A. Forgrave, B. visection, naming Leeds Uni- Gettings, 1. versity as one of the main Goulding, L. Growhurst, D. Guy, N. offenders in the area and to publicise their forthcoming Hadries, R. Harding, S. march and rally to be held in Heap, J. Hover. K. Jame- Leeds on May 25th. son, G. Keating. S. Lomas, •••••■■■-. The rights of animals re- N. Manley, R. McCarthy, mains a minor issue, believes K. Meier, J. Nixon, A. spokeswoman for the vigil, Piercy, A. Preshous. R. Judith Bates. because 'it is so Bracewell, J. Rayner, D. easy to oppress animals: Rea, C. Reed, D. Robert- The authorities also present son, R. Rogers, P. Rooney, K. Russel, J. Shebidan, R. obstacles to progress by pro- • The Animal Rights Vigil last weekend. Photo by Stephen Robinson tecting those who have a vested Shimmin, W. Starr. C. Steele, Thorne, D. Ta- interest in research with anim- vivisection is inevitable, but and types peformed. "We are bers of the University. J. man, S. Treman, R. Tre- als. She quoted the Research argued that the positive now trying to get discussions The petition the group is vor, J. Tuckwell, P. Usher, Defence Society formed to pre- alternatives provided by hi-tech with the university author- handling is to the House of serve the rights to perform ex- equipment could save pointless ities". said Judith Bates. Commons and is being jointly J. Waller, J. Walmsley, S. periments on animals in the and painful replications of ex- In the past the university has organised by the National Anti- Whitty, G. Young. P. name of research. periments year after year. been reluctant to discuss either Vivisection Society. Animal Hanks. N. Harvey, T. Hol- Members of the vigil told The group is calling for a proposals forwarded by anit- Aid and the British Union for lins, M.

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