Clause 40
12:00 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister, Innovation, Universities and Skills; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
The most flexible approach of all would be deregulated further education colleges that respond to local circumstances and which can innovate, and therefore excel, in a diverse system, with a slim, streamlined funding agency—a kind of Further Education Funding Council—providing the resources that they need. Frankly, we would not need most of the proposals if we moved to that model. It is precisely the one outlined by Andrew Foster, who, by the way, is trying to sort out how the Government made such a mess of capital funding in further education. We await, with great interest, his report on that subject.