Forum Brief: FE strike ballot
Policy Consultation 30 July 2002
Members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in 15 further education colleges have indicated a desire to ballot for industrial action in October.
Forum Brief: SR2002 - Education sector response
Policy Consultation 16 July 2002
Education's annual budget has been increased by an average six per cent between 2002 and 2006, boosting spending by £12 billion to £57.8 billion.
Forum Brief: FE Pay
Policy Consultation 13 June 2002
A further spate of industrial action is in train after further education unions rejected the offer of a 2.3 per cent pay rise.
Forum Brief: Lecturers' strike
Policy Consultation 28 May 2002
Colleges across the country are today facing severe disruption as 32,000 further education lecturers begin a two day strike over a pay rises.
Forum Brief: Further Education protest
Policy Consultation 23 April 2002
Parliament is today the target of protests by college organisations, students and trade unions who believe that the Further Education sector is in need of extra funding from the government.
Forum Brief: Education sector Budget response
Policy Consultation 17 April 2002
Schools and universities have been promised a "significant" increase in spending, by the chancellor in his budget speech.
Forum Brief: Education Green Paper
Policy Consultation 10 April 2002
The government's plans to strengthen vocational training in the education green paper have been endorsed by the Institute of Directors and Association of Colleges.
Forum Brief: Further education
Policy Consultation 27 March 2002
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers' annual conference is today set to give its full support to a vigorous campaign to restore pay parity between the school and further education
Forum Brief: Further education strategy
Policy Consultation 21 March 2002
College chiefs have today claimed that ministers lack a coherent strategy for post-14 and post-16 education.
Forum Brief: Further education
Policy Consultation 7 March 2002
A step change is needed to boost quality in post-16 learning before further education can become the flagship service that its students deserve, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said today.
