Dundee West Labour
4 June 2019
Commenting on the Audit Scotland report, Scottish Labour’s education spokesperson, Iain Gray MSP, said:
"Yet again Audit Scotland lays bare the SNP’s failure to support our colleges.
"The financial problems faced by Scotland's colleges under the SNP’s systematic underfunding is set to deepen in the years ahead.
"What’s more, the Government has failed to allocate the funds necessary to maintain the college estate.
"It is no wonder that colleges are far from reaching attainment targets when they clearly do not have the resources to do so.
"Meanwhile colleges still have 120,000 fewer students than when the SNP came to power.
"This is less an audit and more an indictment of the SNP Government’s failure on colleges."
Commenting on the Audit Scotland report, Scottish Labour’s education spokesperson, Iain Gray MSP, said:
"Yet again Audit Scotland lays bare the SNP’s failure to support our colleges.
"The financial problems faced by Scotland's colleges under the SNP’s systematic underfunding is set to deepen in the years ahead.
"What’s more, the Government has failed to allocate the funds necessary to maintain the college estate.
"It is no wonder that colleges are far from reaching attainment targets when they clearly do not have the resources to do so.
"Meanwhile colleges still have 120,000 fewer students than when the SNP came to power.
"This is less an audit and more an indictment of the SNP Government’s failure on colleges."