Post 16 Education Question Time
There’s much going on in sixth form college, further and adult education that worries students, lecturers, policy shapers and others including concerns over the narrowing of syllabi for A levels and the cut of 24% in the adult education budget; concerns over the inadequacy of funding to support college students with additional needs and the emphasis on apprenticeships as the only alternative for young people who don’t want to go to university; the limiting of access to ESOL provision and the application of VAT as a ‘tax’ on sixth form colleges. And then there’s Ofsted, the debate over the balance of examinations or continuous assessment and the introduction of student ‘loans’ for much further education.
Come and ask questions of our panel, discuss these issues and more with:
- Eddie Playfair – Chair of Sixth Form Colleges Association & Principal of Newham Sixth Form College;
- Professor Ken Spours – Co-Director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education & contributor to a number of reports on post 16 education and training;
- Joy Mercer – former Director of Education Policy at the Association of Colleges;
- Mandy Brown – UCU NEC & Action for ESOL;
- Nigel Fox – NUT Regional Representative for Sixth Form Colleges;
- Chair: Dr Nadia Edmond – Campaign for Education & UCU University of Brighton.
At the Sports Cafe, BHASVIC
Organised by the Campaign for Education