(though Leslie Huckfield was one of the contributors at this event, this is posted as an objective summary of the day’s events) Patrick Highton, Executive Director of the Black Country Learning Partnership, who had organised the Conference, welcomed colleagues to what he described as a timely event. There were ongoing Consultations and Responses on 14… Read more »
All Change from Early Years to Higher Education
Whereas Eric Pickles’ Communities and Local Government Department sometimes seems sandwiched between the British Property Federation and the National Trust, there is little sign of any sandwiching of policies on which the Department for Education and Business Innovation and Skills have embarked. The significant feature emerging from all proposed Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education… Read more »
UK Students Shouldn’t Become the New Subprime Debt
In its 40th Birthday Edition last week, Times Higher Education (and I also remember it as The Times Higher Education Supplement) carried a story in which Glynne Stanfield, a partner in the legal firm Eversheds, predicted that a private education provider would buy a UK University in whole or in part within the next six… Read more »
Further Education Colleges need a Wider Role than “Vocational Value”
On Monday 20 June, the Policy Exchange think tank published “Vocational Value: The Role of Further Education Colleges in Higher Education”. Though this appeared a week before “Students at the Heart of the System”, from the high level Conservative patronage and endorsements proudly displayed on its website, Policy Exchange must have had a good idea… Read more »
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