PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice says he will press for a debate on Further Education funding, after being told that the crisis at Nelson and Colne College is a matter for management to deal with.
He fumed that the reply from the Further Education Funding Council's chief executive leaves the College 'twisting in the wind'.
The College was at the centre of a storm when plans were revealed last month to make 37 posts redundant and to leave ten vacancies unfilled.
Mr Prentice told the Citizen: "It is astonishing that the FEFC can take this laid back attitude.
"The priorities in its annual report include 'monitoring the financial health of the sector and of individual colleges and advising colleges on their financial planning and control systems'.
"I want to know what advice they have given my local college. It is stretching things to expect the lay person to believe the college can function as well as ever with the loss of 37 posts and the ten unfilled vacancies."
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