According to the London Economics [pdf] thinktank, FE funding has fallen by more than a fifth – 22% – over the past eight years, while colleges faced higher salary, pension, national insurance and other costs and educated more students.
Those at publicly funded FE colleges will be banned from working part-time.
Just to really terrify staff (who this week lobbied parliament) and students, the aftermath of the election has seen announcements of two further cuts of £450m – in the DfE's post-16 budget, and the business department, which funds FE college's post-18 work.
Since 2006, the Fe-Oxidizing Microbial Observatory (FeMO), funded by the National Science Foundation and Microbial Observatory Program, has led cruises to Lōihi investigate its microbiology every October.
This year she will be looking at the impact of A-level reforms, pushing for better information guidance, and lobbying hard against the most significant change to FE policy in recent years – the introduction of government loans to fund adult education courses.
"If reducing child poverty is a top priority for the Welsh government, the role that FE can play in this needs to be taken seriously and funded accordingly".
An NUS survey published last year suggested that only two-thirds of FE colleges have students' unions and, in many cases, they are poorly funded and have little influence.
XSLL, FRV, PL, FE, ACL, HA, EN, GV, RV, ALJ, MR, CA, VR, MMP, GRP, LR and EOB were funded through their institutions by GSK.
He has conducted research on Olympic legacies funded by the Department of Health, the Economic and Social Reseach Council and Sport England, and on the engagement of FE and HE with London 2012 funded by Podium).
The Kingston and Surbiton MP and economist has taken on the education brief for the Liberal Democrats and he can't believe what he's seeing: The inequality of funding between FE and sixth form colleges, the number of drop-outs at 16, the proportion of adults who don't have five GCSEs.
