A Blackpool college is launching the UK's first publicly funded courses in croupier skills and slot machine operations.
Both of these things mean that the government will have far less money to pay for adult education and needs people to fund courses themselves.
Every phase of past reforms have been driven by a desire to put employers in the driving seat, to design qualifications they value and to fund courses that they most need.
Last week Lord Mandelson called for a new food-labelling-style system in which degrees would be tagged with drop-out rates, earnings potential and employment success, and called on employers to fund courses in return for helping to design them.
Women with advanced cervical cancer will be able to get Avastin, which is also known as bevacizumab, after NHS England decided to fund courses of treatment with it for such patients, at the cost of about £23,295 per person.
These PIs could have been funded through Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) and Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) programs.
Age: 22 Course: MA theology, University of Exeter Cost of course: £6,700 Total cost (including accommodation, travel, food etc): £12,260 How did you fund your course?
Cost of course: £9,000, studying part-time over three years Total cost (including accommodation, travel, food etc): £11,900 How did you fund your course?
This master will normally fund the course fees.
A loan is the most obvious way to fund a course.
Adil, who won a British Council scholarship to help fund his course, credits his MBA with helping him to change career.
