The emergency budget is scheduled for a couple of week's time but already parallels are being drawn and recommendations shared; the BBC have this excellent article on Canada's cuts between 1992 and 1996.
Two things strike me: firstly, the international dependence on the UK and other world financial systems which is very interesting and something I share from my research - the UK does not stand alone.
Secondly, the reference to Canada scrapping separate Special Educational Needs classes. This is a policy which a former tutor of mine advocated with the main-streaming of all children as a key priority. She argued in an article that very often financial expediency forced changes rather than genuine belief in them. It was true of Canada and SEN in the 1990's; will it be true of the UK and cutting chunks of HE (or other budgets) in the 2010's?
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