§ 14. Tony BaldryTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on further education funding. [176003]
§ Alan JohnsonThe Government have set out their investment plans for 2003–04 to 2005–06 to support its Success for All strategy to reform further education and training. These plans enable the Learning and Skills Council to increase funding for further education significantly. For the academic year 2003/04, core funding rates per qualification increased by 3 per cent. for school sixth forms and 4.5 per cent. for further education colleges (setting aside the impact on rates of changes to targeted funds for pay and staff training and teachers' pension funding). Our expenditure plans to 2005–06 should see that trend continue.
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which further education colleges are participating in the(a) learning communities, (b) adult learners' grant and (c) employer training pilots; and what plans he has for take-up in North Staffordshire. [175564]
§ Alan JohnsonFurther Education (FE) colleges are key partners in developing Learning Communities. Eleven test bed Learning Communities entered their development phase in April 2004 and a further 15 will be in place by September. Although, none of the test beds are located in North Staffordshire, there are proposals for two learning communities to be developed in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the local FE colleges are closely involved. At this stage in the1818W development of the test beds we do not have information on the FE colleges involved in the local partnerships.
Adult Learning Grant (ALG) pilots are currently being operated in 10 local Learning and Skills Council areas. There are over 75 FE colleges and other providers (as seen in following Table) who have learners in receipt of an ALG in the pilot areas. From September 2004, there are plans to double the size of the current pilot by extending ALG throughout the two lead regions—the South East and North East. There are no ALG pilots in the Staffordshire area and the area does not figure in the lead regions.
There are currently 12 Employer Training Pilots in operation and, by September 2004, there will be 18 covering 20 local LSC areas. The LSC is responsible for managing the pilots, which involves 118 FE colleges (as seen in the following list) providing training and other services to help meet the skills needs of participating employers. At present there are no plans to extend the pilots to North Staffordshire.
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FE colleges involved in ALGs Bedfordshire Bedford College Bedfordshire Barnfield College Bedfordshire Dunstable College Bedfordshire Luton Sixth Form College County Durham Bishop Auckland College County Durham New College, Durham County Durham East Durham and Houghall Community College County Durham Derwentside College Devon and Cornwall Truro College Devon and Cornwall Penwith College Devon and Cornwall North Devon College Devon and Cornwall Plymouth College of Art and Design Devon and Cornwall Plymouth College of Further Education Devon and Cornwall Cornwall College Devon and Cornwall Exeter College Devon and Cornwall Blcton College Devon and Cornwall East Devon College Devon and Cornwall South Devon College Devon and Cornwall Falmouth College of Art and Design Humberside John Leggott Sixth Form College Humberside Wilberforce College Humberside Franklin College Humberside East Riding College Humberside Wyke Sixth Form College Humberside Bishop Burton College Humberside Hull College Humberside Grimsby College Humberside North Lindsey College Humberside East Yorkshire College of Further Education Humberside Driffield School Lancashire Skelmersdale College Lancashire Blackburn College Lancashire Nelson and Colne College Lancashire Blackpool and The Fylde College Lancashire Lancaster and Morecambe College Lancashire Preston College Lancashire Accrington and Rossendale College Lancashire Runshaw College Lancashire Burnley College Lancashire Myerscough College Lancashire Cardinal Newman College Lancashire St. Mary's College, Blackburn Leicestershire Gateway Sixth Form College Leicestershire Regent College Leicestershire South Leicestershire College Leicestershire Loughborough College Leicestershire Stephenson College Leicestershire Brooksby Melton College Leicestershire Leicester College Leicestershire Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College London West Harrow College London West Uxbridge College London West Baling, Hammersmith and West London College
FE colleges involved in ALGs London West Stanmore College London West West Thames College London West College of North West London Shropshire Ludlow College Shropshire New College, Telford Shropshire Telford College of Arts and Technology Shropshire Walford and North Shropshire College Shropshire Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology South Yorkshire Thomas Rotherham College South Yorkshire Dearne Valley College South Yorkshire Sheffield College South Yorkshire Rother Valley College South Yorkshire Rotherham College of Arts and Technology South Yorkshire Doncaster College South Yorkshire Barnsley College South Yorkshire Northern College The Black Country Halesowen College The Black Country Walsall College of Arts and Technology The Black Country Wolverhampton College The Black Country Sandwell College The Black Country Dudley College of Technology The Black Country Stourbridge College FE Colleges and Work-Based Learning Providers involved in ETPs:
- Academy of Learning Ltd.
- Accrington and Rossendale College
- Adult Community College Colchester
- Adult Community College Chelmsford
- Anderson Business College Ltd.
- Babington Business College Ltd. (Derby)
- Barking College
- Basildon Adult Community College
- Berkshire College of Agriculture
- Bexley College
- Birmingham Academy Training Ltd.
- Birmingham College of Food Tourism and Creative Studies
- Birmingham Community College
- Bolton Community College
- Bournville College of Further Education
- Bracknell and Wokingham College
- Braintree College
- Brooksby Melton College
- Building Crafts College
- Burton College
- Bury College
- Canterbury College
- Catten College Ltd.
- Central Training Academy
- Chelmsford College
- Chesterfield College
- City College Manchester
- City of Sunderland College
- Colchester Institute
- Cricklade College
- Crown Secretarial College
- Derby College
- Derby Tertiary College Wilmorton
- East Berkshire College
- Eccles College
- Epping Forest College
- Gateshead College
- Greenwich Community College
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- Harlow College
- Harlow ITEC
- Havering College of Further and Higher Education
- Highbury College—Workforce and Business Development
- Hopwood Hall College
- Institute of Refractories Engineers
- Intec Business Colleges PLC
- ITEC Learning Technologies
- Josiah Mason Sixth Form College
- Kingston Maurward College
- Leicester Adult Education College
- Leicester College
- Lewisham College
- Loughborough College
- Ludlow College
- Manchester College of Arts and Technology
- Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education
- Mid-Kent College
- Moulton College F,E,C
- Myerscough College
- New College Swindon
- New College Telford
- Newbury College
- Newcastle College
- Newham College
- Newham College of Further Education
- North Hertfordshire College
- North Trafford College of Further Education
- North Tyneside Adult Basic Education
- North Tyneside College Silverlink Business training
- North Warwickshire and Hinckley College
- North West Kent College of technology
- Northumberland College
- Norton Radstock College
- Oaklands College
- Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture
- Pendleton College
- Preston College
- Queen Alexandra College
- Ridge Danyers College
- Salisbury College
- Shipley College
- Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology
- Shrewsbury Sixth Form College
- Solihull College
- South Birmingham College
- South East Derbyshire College
- South East Essex College of Arts and technology
- South Kent College
- South Leicestershire College
- South Trafford College
- South Tyneside College
- Southend Adult Community College
- Sparsholt College Hampshire
- St. Helens College
- St. John Rigby College
- Stephenson College
1821W - Stockport College of Further and Higher Education
- Sutton Coldfield College
- Swindon College
- Swindon College (Swindon 1)
- Tameside College
- Telford College of Arts and Technology
- Tendring Adult Community College
- Thanet College
- The Oldham College
- The Virtual College
- The Vocational College Ltd.
- Thurrock and Basildon College
- Tower Hamlets College
- University of Derby High Peak College
- Wakefield College
- Walford and North Shropshire College
- West Kent College
- West Nottinghamshire College
- Wigan and Leigh College
- Wiltshire College
- Wirral Metropolitan College
- Writtle College