Ian Nash summarises views from a selection of respondents interviewed six months on from the annual survey The pulse of further education The Great FE & Skills Survey of 2015. Rarely has a set of such far-reaching Government reforms been …
Checking the pulse – it’s now a question of survival for FE Read more »
The Policy Consortium’s Ian Nash contrasts the skills minister’s doubts about the future of the general FE college with the expert evidence in the new book ‘The coming for Age for FE?’. Sources within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are suggesting area …
Mick Fletcher’s analysis of the recent Skills Funding letter sets the background for policy developments from 2015 onwards. This article first appeared in FE Week. Bad news for adult learning but not good for SFA either Much of the response to …
More budget blues from a true blue budget? As George Osborne announces plans for another budget Mick Fletcher reflects on the implications for FE of the first budget 2015 and is not impressed. This article first appeared in FE Week. …
Policy Consortium member Ian Nash introduces the full report of the second Great FE & Skills Survey, undertaken by the Policy Consortium in conjunction with its media partner FE Week. The Coalition Government presided over cuts to further education which have proved …
In an extended and adapted version of a recent blog for the Campaign for Learning’s website, Mike Cooper considers just where 24+ Advanced Learning Loans are now, and may be heading. 24+ Advanced Learning (‘FE’) Loans have been around for …
FE Loans: Going Away? On Hold? Or, Just Biding Their Time? Read more »
Policy Consortium member Ian Nash considers the recent report from the Association of Colleges about cuts in funding for adults. Coalition Government policies for further education are increasingly being exposed as, at best, ill-considered. The latest to ring the alarm bell …
Austerity cuts sacrifice two ‘lost generations’ seeking adult education and training Read more »