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Colleges Delivering for Wales
John Graystone
Chief Executive
CollegesWales
George Osborne’s Budget 20 March 2013
£161m increase in capital spending in Wales from
2013/14 – 2014/15
reduction in revenue budget: by £27m in 2013/14 and
£32m in 2014/15
public sector pay awards in 2015-16 limited to average
of up to 1 per cent.
Government departments and pay review bodies to
determine “whether lower award is justified based on
affordability and individual recruitment and retention
needs”
reform of ‘progression pay i.e. increments in 2015-16
Spending Round
Budget contd
Office for Budget Responsibility predicts growth of 0.6%
in 2013 (revised down from 1.2%), 1.8% in 2014; 2.3% in
2015, 2.7% in 2016 and 2.8% in 2017
debt as share of gross domestic product – increase from
75.9% (2013/13) to 85.6% in 2016/17
words used by Chancellor – ‘nation’ 26 times; ‘jobs’ 20;
‘aspiration’ 11; ‘deficit’ 11; ‘debt’ 6; ‘work hard’ 5; ‘get on’
4; ‘schools’ 3; ‘apprenticeships’ 2; ‘universities’ 1, ‘further
education’ 0; ‘Wales’ 0
A Failing Economy or a Failing State?
Focus on economy is very important but we need also to focus on other
large matters
elected politicians - parliamentary expenses
crises in some newspapers- hacking
BBC - internal problems following handling of Saville and Hall
cases
police attacked over Hillsborough and Andrew Mitchell
established church in crisis over attitudes to sex - female
bishops, gay marriage
civil service seen as obstructive to elected government
banking crisis and tax dodging rich corporations
Prof Colin Talbot
House of Commons Education Committee on careers
guidance for young people
Education Act 2011 – statutory duty on schools
to secure access to independent impartial
careers advice
came into force Sept 2012
this approach is ‘regrettable’
“we have concerns about consistency, quality,
independence and impartiality of careers
guidance....evidence that worrying deterioration
of overall level of provision”
Education committee (contd)
schools should work towards Quality in Careers
standards
every school should be required to publish
annual careers plan setting out what expected in
careers work and resources allocated
No Stone Unturned in Pursuit of Growth:
Lord Heseltine
FE providers not incentivised to run courses that
deliver greatest economic benefit
skills funding flows to courses that students want
and colleges can fill and not what employers
need
little incentive for training providers to meet what
economy needs e.g. only 2% of total FE income
of £7.5bn was fee income from employers
not enough private investment in vocational
training
The Heseltine solution
good things
Employer Ownership Pilot - £250m routed through
employers to develop skills solutions
some City Deals include agreements for devolving
responsibility for skills
budget for vocational training for 19+ and
apprenticeships should be devolved to Local Employer
Partnerships (LEPs) which should incorporate skills
needs within local economic plans
Skills Funding Agency should be wound up but
Education Funding Agency should continue to fund 1618
What do these numbers refer to?
10 - 1880
11 - 1893
12 - 1899
14 - 1921
15 - 1947
16 - 1972
17 - 2013
18 - 2015
Ken Baker ‘A New Vision for Secondary
Education’
Liberal Arts Colleges for academic studies akin to
grammar schools
University Technical Colleges (UTCs)
Career Colleges for practical, vocational subjects;
Sports, Creative and Performing Arts Colleges based on
the highly successful Brit School in Croydon
these will create a coherent array of routes leading to
university, apprenticeships and employment
pathways provide broad education but with distinctive
character
Theme
Wales
England
Overall approach
Partnership
Competition
Choice for students
Limited
Extensive
New types of school
No
Yes
Raise participation age
to 18
Opportunities for
learners expanded
Legal requirement
Funding councils?
Welsh Government
Two funding bodies
Funding
Tight but directly to
colleges
16-18 protected but 19+
more to employers
Mergers
Strong lead from WG
Discouraged
EMAs
Yes
No
NPISH
FHE Bill
Yes
Curriculum reform
Yes but different
Yes but different
Colleges enrol FT 15
and 16 yr olds
No
Yes
Chartered status
Being considered
Yes
White Paper on FHE Bill
“The Welsh Government recognises the maturity
of the FE sector in Wales and believes that
colleges, rather than government, are best placed
to determine how the needs of their learners and
local communities should be met; based within the
strong and vibrant Welsh culture of collaboration,
co-operation and partnership working. This culture
is central to the future success of the sector”
White Paper
‘The Welsh Government will work alongside
ColegauCymru to develop a Code of Governance
for the sector which incorporates the Nolan
principles and best practice’.
‘We also anticipate a key role for ColegauCymru in
leading the sector and ensuring a sense of shared
responsibility across all colleges, for example,
developing a code of practice’.
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