More than 150 protesters marched through Oxford on 19 May as Abingdon and Witney College prepared to begin a two-year campus redevelopment. The private Abacus Nursery provided nearly half of its places to students at a discount in return for free rent.
Abacus deputy manager Eileen Tyrell said, 'You can't walk out of this job without a fight, so we contacted the media and organised the march.
'They finally told us, you have to go on 4 July.'
Steve Billcliffe, the college's director of development, said, 'We need the space that the nursery takes up for temporary classrooms during the new build. If we could get funding from the Learning & Skills Council we would take out a bank loan to build a nursery.
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