A Local Healthwatch for each Local Authority – a Major Opportunity for Social Enterprise? Background 2013 will be a year for defining ‘Social Enterprise’, especially in the National Health Service in England. This Background section explains why. (From the outset, Huckfield declares an interest in all this as a Member of the Board of the… Read more »
Black Country Partnership for Learning Further and Higher Education Conference Friday 25 May 2012
THIS CONFERENCE IS A VERY TIMELY EVENT This piece represents a strong Huckfield recommendation. At only £95, this Conference represents exceedingly good value. A similar London Conference would be at last £300 plus fares. This is the Black Country Partnership for Learning Online Booking Form. Black Country Partnership for Learning Black Country Partnership for Learning… Read more »
Filling the Infrastructure Funding Gap
BACKGROUND With ongoing reductions in public expenditure for infrastructure funding, this Huckfield briefing gives a summary of funding available in Scotland for further development of infrastructure projects. It does not seek to be exhaustive but to shed light on some sources with which all readers may not be familiar. The following headings take you straight… Read more »
Employer Ownership of Skills
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills launched its bidding Prospectus for Employer Ownership of Skills on Tuesday 07 February 2012. Previous Huckfield briefings on Employer Ownership Pilots have appeared here since Wednesday 07 December 2011. The Bidding Timetable and details of Briefing Sessions are shown below. Though Employer Ownership Pilots apply only in England,… Read more »
Funding for Scotland’s Colleges
Sincere apologies for the length of this Huckfield briefing. The following detailed sections seek to provide information for Scotland’s Further Education Colleges and others along similar lines to that previously provided in Huckfield briefings for Further Education and Higher Education in England. Many of Scotland’s Colleges will be familiar with funding initiatives listed. No claim… Read more »
The Government’s Regional Policy is called Localism
This piece is not about the politics. It’s about funding. It’s main message is that Localism is the new Regionalism. Especially, this piece – with apologies for its unenviable length – seeks to summarise the deluge of Local Government funding initiatives and consultations which appeared immediately prior to Christmas. Regional Policy by Eland House and… Read more »
Who Speaks for the West Midlands?
This post makes three main points: Compared with the North and other regions no one is putting the Case for the West Midlands In a brand new policy environment, there is “no going back” to previous structures and policies. The West Midlands needs to adapt to new funding structures The West Midlands needs a coherent… Read more »
“New Challenges, New Chances”: No Central Bank for Colleges’ Sovereign Debts.
Last week, most focus on was the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. This week it has been on the Prime Minister’s difficulties with his Party and with the proposed Merkozy Amendments to the Lisbon Treaty. So it’s probably understandable that the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills’ publication of two more chapters in its “New Challenges. New… Read more »
Launch of Employer Ownership Pilots on Tuesday 13 December 2011
As featured before in Important Grant News, Prime Minister David Cameron and Vince Cable first mentioned the Employer Ownership Pilots initiative on Thursday 17 November 2011. Vince Cable said then: “We have to fundamentally alter the relationship between employers and the state – giving employers the space and opportunity for greater ownership of the vocational… Read more »
Education Funding after George Osborne’s Autumn Statement
With the Euro struggling to survive, George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Tuesday 29 November 2011 was probably optimistic. But hidden among the severe warnings from the Office of Budget Responsibility, it contained nearly two dozen pointers for those who follow Education Funding. This piece summarises the main ones. This was also the week when Department… Read more »
Note from the Black Country Partnership for Learning Post Wolf Conference at West Bromwich on Friday 25 November 2011
(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 »
Pearson Higher Education “Hot Breakfast”
For those of us who don’t live in the South East, getting to the Pearson HQ in High Holborn for an 0800 breakfast start last Friday was not easy. But it was well worth it. The ‘Hot Breakfast’ Briefing featured some of the first more detailed policy responses to the Government’s recent White Paper “Students… Read more »
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