Colleges see disaster ahead

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The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has been warned by college principals that it is in danger of recreating past "funding nightmares" as further education enters the 10th anniversary of the council's incorporation. The Association of Colleges has stated that it does not believe that the LSC's plans to introduce a funding-and-performance monitoring regime in order to support the UK government's Success for All strategy for further education will be either efficient or workable, noting that it is unlikely to result in a reduction in red tape, will increase the risk of data manipulation and could result in some colleges being put into a downward financial spiral.

Strategy & planning, Government expenditures, Organizational history, Management, Planning, Finance, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company business planning, Company organization, Government finance, Educational aspects, Learning and Skills Council

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No appetite for games

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RAE panel members in social sciences will not tolerate institutions and departments which indulge in 'game-playing' to boost ratings. Institutions are strongly reccomended to enter all research-atcive staff to add to expected RAE-related income and 'environment' standing.

Evaluation, Study and teaching, Social sciences, 2008 AD

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Woodhead warns on expansion

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Chris Woodhead, head of the England and Wales inspection agency Ofsted, says the government policy of expanding further and higher education could reduce the quality of education on offer when it should be improving it.

Officials and employees, Social policy, Education policy, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, College admissions, Higher education and state, United Kingdom. Office of Standards in Education, Woodhead, Chris, Government executives

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