This arrangement between a private university and a further education college shows how an alternative model might operate.
This latest project marks its first partnership with a further education college - with the expectation of more to be announced later.
The sixth forms at four secondary schools in Merthyr Tydfil are to close with provision instead moving to a further education college.
Papur Dre is a community newspaper working with Cwmni Da, a television production company and Coleg Menai, a further education college in Gwynedd.
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He worked in retail banks in the 1990s, before turning to the public sector first as a social care worker and then as a further education lecturer.
This included having two college representatives on Edexcel's council and setting up a further education forum, which is due to meet for the first time next month.
Mr Manley will be teaching most of the theory himself, and working in partnership with a local further education college for such things as brickwork.
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Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly asked if there was not a case for further education to become part of the education department.
In the tables, we are also offering the option of seeing which institutions have performed best in Advanced GNVQs, to reflect the long-standing concern that ranking institutions by A level results automatically disadvantages further education colleges, which tend to have a more vocational, less academic focus.
There is likely to be a wave of innovation in further education, particularly online, that will cater to this need in a more flexible, personalised way than the traditional degree or postgraduate course.
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The MLAS are to seek a meeting with the Further Education Minister and the college's Board of Governors.
An independent survey of the schemes found that 75% of participants were in work or further education a year after leaving them.
Obtaining a C-grade in GCSE English is a crucial benchmark required for pupils wanting to continue their studies at A-level or further education college.
In a joint statement, further education minister Sion Simon and minister for offender management David Hanson MP said the service was "far from failing".
"While this report is based mainly on perceptions of what might happen, we are committed to providing graduates with practical support to help them get a job or further their education, " he said.
But the spokesman said to attract the capital funding needed its case would have to be "truly transformational", and that simply asking for funds to build a new school, further education or leisure centre would not be successful.
Ministers have warned universities that they could be undercut by new providers offering courses at a lower cost - including further education colleges.
In Newcastle, the provision of modern apprenticeships was applauded by inspectors, but A level results in the further education and sixth form college level were less successful.
Still, Parliament says she supports Brinda's decision because she knows he has a passion for personal finance, and, in her opinion, it's never a bad option to further your education.
Labour's vision of further education has travelled a long way since the party came to power.
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There will be a knock-on further down the education system as primary level has to be toughened to meet the demands of secondary to in turn meet the demands of A-levels and so on.
Staff at Kent's largest further education college have held a half-day strike over plans to cut 145 jobs.
But that hasn't satisfied our Lib Dems who have pledged to continue their campaign until there's a fairer deal for sixth forms and further education colleges.
The challenge centred on more than 10, 000 pupils who missed out on a C grade in GCSE English, which is a crucial benchmark used for entry into further education, vocational training and employment.
The case centres on more than 10, 000 pupils who missed out on a C grade in GCSE English which is a crucial benchmark used for entry into further education, vocational training and employment, but the decision affected all the grade margins.
Scotland's 41 further education colleges are now facing a potential raft of mergers.
In 2010, the latest year for which figures are available, there were around 2, 400 universities or colleges of further education, of which only a tenth were public.
Queen's University vice-chancellor Prof Sir Peter Gregson said he would prefer if higher education and further education remained linked and in a department "that is focused on the economic development".
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It allows the degree-awarding powers of a university to combine with the local reach of further education colleges.
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