To download the PDF please click here 2013/17 Introduction Next month, the Chancellor is due to give a formal response to Lord Heseltine’s landmark Report last autumn on what might be needed to stimulate growth in this country. It could signal a significant shift in the way in which the skills system operates, for at…
To download the PDF please click here 2013/7 Introduction Nine priority areas and a budget now clearly showing the shift to the fee loan model make up this year’s Grant Letter to HEFCE released this week. HEFCE’s final assessment of the impact of the new fee regime introduced last year will not be complete for…
Introduction Since the start of the month new funding rules have been published, updates on fee loans started, consultation on workforce regulations launched, modifications to Corporations’ forms of governance announced and developments around core learning groups such as apprentices, adult learners and HE students confirmed. FE’s ‘spring’ revolution continues Funding and fees Simplification means the…
Introduction The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has recently confirmed that simplification of the adult skills funding system will be introduced in 2013/14. There had been some thought that it might be introduced sooner, especially as a strong case for change had been building up and there had been a consultation last year but the view…
Introduction The Wolf recommendations on 14-19 moved a step nearer to fruition last week. First consultation closed on new criteria for Key Stage 4 league tables, a further statement is due in a few weeks and secondly, a batch of papers was released on 16-19 provision and funding. There were three papers: a proposal to…
26 April 2011 [2011/15] Policy Watch – Consultation gets under way on school funding. Introduction The start of a new financial year and two significant documents come out on school funding. One is on a new funding formula for schools and kickstarts what may be an intense period of consultation, “we expect to publish further…
24 January 2011 2011/1 – Primary policy watch: Phonics, phreedom and phunding Few people with an interest in primary education will have missed the new government’s passion for early reading. Michael Gove and Nick Gibb’s determination to raise reading standards was given fresh impetus by last month’s PISA results, which showed England falling from 17th…
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