NUS Victory with FE White Paper
The government has given representation within the FE sector the best opportunity in the last thirty years to develop, by placing the learner voice at the heart of the FE White Paper. There will now be a number of new opportunities for representation in colleges and across the whole FE sector. These include:
In college:
Outside college:
- There should be a Learning Panel consisting of students to talk to local stakeholders, (principally the local LSC)
- Their will be a National Learning Panel consisting of students to talk to national stakeholders including DFES, the Learning Skills Council, the Quality Improvement Agency and OFSTED
What you can do now:
- Why not read the FE White Paper for yourself on DfES - Hot Topics - Further Education White Paper and respond to the consultation on DfES, e-Consultation
- Drop us an email on danny.douglas@nus.org.uk if you would like to be one of the students who will come to the first national learner panel meeting in the first two weeks of June
- Start to think about what a Learner Engagement Strategy would mean for your Students Union
- Come to FE Essentials Training. Weymouth 15 – 17 June and Wigan 19 –21 June. Full details on Web site later.
Other things in the FE White Paper:
- Coasting colleges not tolerated, (this means if areas of learning could be closed or merged if they are only satisfactory and not improving)
- Less colleges to provide Higher Education in collaborative arrangements, the remaining provision will be centred on “larger colleges”
- New standards for Centres of Vocational Excellence (COVE`s) and links into the new National Academies
- Introduction of Adult Learning Grant from September 2007
- Introduction of new Adult Guidance Service
NUS will be producing:
- A draft Learner Engagement Strategy
- A response to the FE White Paper
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