Education and Skills written question – answered at on 14 March 2005.
Mr Archie Norman
Conservative, Tunbridge Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she expects the funding gap between school sixth forms and further education colleges in Tunbridge Wells to be closed.
Kim Howells
Minister of State (Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education), Department for Education and Skills
The Department does not have information on what the funding gap is between school sixth forms and further education colleges in Tunbridge Wells specifically.
However, we have brought up funding levels for Further Education as we said we would, without penalising schools. The Learning and Skills Council's funding rates per course in FE have been rising faster than school sixth forms and the gap has narrowed.
Our policy has been to raise the level of funding for colleges, as and when we are able to secure the resources to do so.
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