Clause 17
Further Education and Training Bill [Lords]
4:45 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister (Vocational Education), Education; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
I said “typically” rather than “all”. It is true that often there are good and productive relationships between universities and colleges, as I shall discuss later, but there are some structural problems in that relationship, some of which I shall describe as I continue. I want to reassure the hon. Lady that I would not want to suggest that those relationships never work well. Often they do work well, as Universities UK argues. But I do think that we can re-examine the barriers that currently exist in some cases to the effective delivery of foundation degrees and an effective validation process.