Further Education and training has always been a cinderella service. Underfunded, with no proper strategic oversight, it has been generally last on the list for educational policy development. One thing that Blair and Brown did do right was to properly fund FE and training. The last 10 years has seen funding drop hugely. It's telling that in one of his previous incarnations Hancock had responsibility for this area.....They do this every 10 years. 20 years ago it got quite far and was starting to be successful but then they pulled it AGAIN
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