Full Description
Twenty-one years on from Incorporation, the time is surely right to put away childish things ('That's where hairdressers go to get qualifications, isn't it?') and take a mature, honest stock-take of the Further Education sector. In this detailed, scholarly and yet remarkably accessible collection, Ann Hodgson brings together leading FE researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, from whose work emerges a fascinating narrative of the development of the sector and the place it finds itself in today.As Lorna Unwin argues in her Foreword, this book is simultaneously a celebration of FE and a clear-eyed appraisal of its strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges it continues to face. It is about politics, student experience, curriculum, assessment, teachers and managers, space and place, governors and governance, leaders and leadership, power and future vision. Or, what goes on in colleges.
Contents
CONTENTSBailey, and Norman Lucas; 2. The politicians' tale, by Ian Nash and Sue Jones; 3. Students count, by Adrian Perry and Peter Davies; 4. What goes on in colleges: Curriculum and qualifications, by Geoff Stanton, Andrew Morris and Judith Norrington; 5. The FE workforce, by Mick Fletcher, Norman Lucas, Norman Crowther, and Dan Taubman; 6. Space and place: Colleges rebuilding, by Paul Grainger, Chris Wilderspin, Joanna van Heyningen and Tony Pitcher; 7. Governance and governors, by John Graystone, Kevin Orr, and Rob Wye; 8. Levers of power: Funding, inspection and performance management, by Mick Fletcher, Julian Gravatt, and David Sherlock; 9. Leadership and leaders of colleges, by Tom Jupp; 10. The future for FE colleges in England: The case for a new post-incorporation model, by Ann Hodgson and Ken Spours; Index.
