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Although the LSC claims these changes are "to improve choice and to improve participation", but many fear these changes will pave the way for greater tendering of contracts n the future. One lecturer noted that "what students want most is a well motivated and skilled lecturer, providing quality education in a well resourced, clean institution". He went on to state that "I am not convinced that extra competition brings anything but disorder and division".
These plans, if implemented, will further divide the workers and reduce the quality of education to their pupils. Furthermore, it is not hard to imagine situations where private enterprises with no education background win a contract, yet being entirely profit-oriented they will have neither the will nor the expertise to carry out successful running of an educational institution.
This issue is one that will reduce both the unity of the workforce and the quality of further education provision, and will see yet more private interests trying to make a fast buck out of our children's social and educational development.