Further Education Re-formed

After more than a century of being undervalued, further education has been thrust into the limelight. How have the colleges fared? How have they been shaped by the new arrangements for funding, governance, and inspection, as well as the new qualifications framework? What do those running the colleges and working in them make of the changes? What are their proper prospects for the new millennium?

Further Education Reformed is the definitive account of where further education is now and where it might be heading. Containing specifically commissioned papers by some of the most respected academics currently working in the field of further education, this book portrays the situation as it is now and looks forward to the developments of the coming years. It will be vital reading for anyone concerned with further education in particular and education in general, whether as a policy-maker, governor, manager, teacher, employer, or student.

Figures and Tables

vii

Acronyms

viii

Introduction: The Making of a New Sector

1

(12)

Alan Smithers

Pamela Robinson

The Emergence of the Colleges

13

(13)

John Pratt

The Present Picture

26

(11)

David Melville

Deirdre Macleod

Recurrent Funding

37

(23)

Roger Mcclure

The Qualifications Framework

60

(13)

Alan Smithers

Curriculum and Learning

73

(9)

Richard Dimbleby

Clive Cooke

Staff Relations

82

(7)

Dan Taubman

Governance and Management

89

(14)

Michael Shattock

The Changing Campus

103

(12)

George Edwards

Partnerships with the Community

115

(14)

Julian Gravatt

Ruth Silver

Widening Participation

129

(12)

Annette Zera

Tom Jupp

The Web of Interaction with Employers

141

(11)

Patrick Coldstream

Franchising

152

(8)

Guardino Rospigliosi

Accountability and Audit

160

(14)

Jim Donaldson

Research

174

(17)

Geoff Stanton

Colleges in the New Millennium

191

(18)

Alan Smithers

Pamela Robinson

Notes on Contributors

209

(5)

Index

214

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Further Education Re-formed

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