§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on the demarcation between(a) community and adult education courses funded by local education authorities, (b) courses of further and higher education funded by Higher Education Funding Council and (c) courses for which training and enterprise councils are responsible.
§ Mr. BoswellUnder the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, the further education funding councils and local education authorities are jointly responsible for securing the adequate provision for their areas of all kinds of further education for adults. The FEFCs are responsible for securing the provision of the type of further education defined in schedule 2 to the Act—mainly vocational, academic, access and basic skills courses. LEAs have responsibility for securing the provision of all other kinds of further education— mainly leisure and recreational courses.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England funds HE institutions for non-vocational community education through its funding methodology for part-time teaching, and for continuing vocational education where the institutions apply successfully for development funding.
Training and enterprise councils are responsible generally for co-ordinating the training needs of their areas and specifically for delivering the youth training programme for young people and the training for work programme for adults.