Fees Row W.E.A.

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Last week,in The Guardian,  Andrew Mourant reported on the row between lecturers and their professional body, the Institute for Learning, over the rise in annual fees. 

Reply by Bernard Tucker:

Thank you for featuring the appalling business of the Institute for Learning's attempt to force its members to pay the annual subscription.

As a very part-time tutor for the Workers Educational Association (WEA), I was forced to join an organisation that has nothing to offer me; I ignore the endless bumph that is sent.

I earn a few hundred pounds a year after tax  from the WEA. I don't teach to supplement my pension, but in the hope of staving off dementia. An annual sub of £68 is out of proportion to what I earn and to what IfL is worth. I would rather give up teaching than pay it.