Labour's vision of further education has travelled a long way since the party came to power.
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Two recent reviews are behind these plans to make further education the engine-room of the economy.
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Some also receive bonuses for finishing their courses in school or further education college.
There needed to be "clearer arrangements" for escalating concerns and medical staff needed further education.
He said he had earmarked the funds for new projects including numerous further education colleges.
They would be irritated if he failed, and would put him down for further education.
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Many of Scotland's 40 further education colleges are currently in the process of a series of mergers.
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Foundation courses in community centres, best suited to their needs, are threatened by the changes to further education.
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Staff at Kent's largest further education college have held a half-day strike over plans to cut 145 jobs.
The MLAS are to seek a meeting with the Further Education Minister and the college's Board of Governors.
It allows the degree-awarding powers of a university to combine with the local reach of further education colleges.
It is an example of the more diverse higher and further education landscape that ministers want to encourage.
This arrangement between a private university and a further education college shows how an alternative model might operate.
Questions to the government also covered physical education in schools, further education, and human rights in Saudi Arabia.
On the published figures, further education and sixth form colleges did account for most of the worst performers.
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The research was supportive of the work of further education colleges, but was sceptical about reports of progress.
It also proposed extending the education maintenance allowances, paid to some further education students, into the university sector.
Sean Farren of the Social Democratic and Labour Party is to become the minister for higher and further education.
Malcolm Cooper now runs his own management consultancy for colleges in financial difficulty, after previously working in further education.
It covers students studying for degrees at university or taking Higher National Diplomas or Certificates at further education colleges.
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Scotland's 41 further education colleges are now facing a potential raft of mergers.
Further education would also be attractive if it led to a useful qualification.
Proposing the motion, Richard Salter, from Somerset, said students at further education (FE) and sixth-form colleges were being discriminated against.
Underperforming further education (FE) colleges in England are to face a tougher regime, as the government launches its skills strategy.
Earlier this month, representatives for further education also advised the committee that they would prefer to be controlled by DETI.
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They were also concerned that further education and higher education were having to make more savings than any other department.
Dr Huppert asked the Mr Alexander about the VAT paid by sixth form colleges and further education colleges in 2012.
The tables include schools without sixth forms, schools with sixth forms, and further education colleges that take only 16-18-year-old students.
Strip out the costs of higher and further education, capital programmes and several other centrally-funded projects, and that fell to 6%.
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