From 1 April the Welsh Assembly Government will cut budgets for the education of 16-18-year-olds by 7.4%.John Griffiths said the cut reflected a tight budget across departments, but it would not narrow student choice.
Teachers' representatives claimed that the situation will be made worse because once cuts are passed on to schools by local authorities they will not be capped at 7.4%.
Anna Brychan, who came across in a very informed way on the show ,and is head of (NAHT)Cymru told The Politics Show Wales that some schools were reporting a cut in their post-16 budget of up to 28%.
"It makes the funding system post-16 unstable and inevitably puts jobs at risk" she said It was a "huge, unexpected reduction," "It's not sustainable"She also said many NAHT members thought there was a "hidden agenda" to move away from having sixth forms in schools, and that "a very great number of them" feared for the future of sixth forms in Wales.
Just as worrying was Brian Lightman, the immediate past president of the Association of School and College Leaders, who said: "I think it's going to have an absolutely disastrous effect on the operation of post-16 education in Wales."It's a massive cut and it's been applied across the board."
Unions said the threat to teaching jobs was considerable, and schools would not be able to offer as wide a range of courses.
So was the money out of this budget re-directed to fill the gap in Jane Hutts early years plans?
Whats the rationale education wise in this?
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