Further Education Re-formed (New Millenium Series)
Specially commissioned papers by some of the most respected academic currently working in the field of further education, drawing the situation as it is now and looking forward to the developments of the coming years. How is the student population changing? Who goes to college now, and why? What is the place of the FE future? How will colleges relate to the business sector and cooperate with other institutions? Where are colleges going in funding, governance and accountability?
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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, inspection and the new qualifications framework? What do those running the colleges and working in them make of the changes? What are their prospects for the new millennium? Further Education Reformed is the definitive account of where further education has got to 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 draws 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. Booknews Professionals connected to the British Further Education Funding Counsel and college administrators consider the state of the colleges since the Counsel became responsible for financing colleges in 1993. They ask how the colleges have fared; how have they been shaped by the new arrangements for funding, governance, inspection and the new qualifications framework; what those running the colleges and working in them make of the changes; what difference the re-definition to lifelong learning make; and what the college's prospects are for the new millennium. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Figures and TablesviiAcronymsviii1Introduction: The Making of a New Sector12The Emergence of the Colleges133The Present Picture264Recurrent Funding375The Qualifications Framework606Curriculum and Learning737Staff Relations828Governance and Management899The Changing Campus10310Partnerships with the Community11511Widening Participation12912The Web of Interaction with Employers14113Franchising15214Accountability and Audit16015Research17416Colleges in the New Millennium191Notes on Contributors209Index214
\ BooknewsProfessionals connected to the British Further Education Funding Counsel and college administrators consider the state of the colleges since the Counsel became responsible for financing colleges in 1993. They ask how the colleges have fared; how have they been shaped by the new arrangements for funding, governance, inspection and the new qualifications framework; what those running the colleges and working in them make of the changes; what difference the re-definition to lifelong learning make; and what the college's prospects are for the new millennium. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
