Further Education Curriculum

Reeves, Frank

ISBN 10: 1871526191 / ISBN 13: 9781871526196

Published by Education Now Publishing Co-Operative Ltd, 1996

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:1871526191.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Further Education Curriculum
• Publisher: Education Now Publishing Co-Operative Ltd
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1871526191
• ISBN 13: 9781871526196
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 450 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education

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Synopsis

More than three million students in England, the majority adult, but including over 60 per cent of 16 and 17 year-olds in full-time and part-time education, attend colleges in the further education - or FE sector. The government sees the sector as making a key contribution to building the skilled and motivated workforce needed to take on international competition. The sector's 457 colleges - colleges of further education, tertiary colleges, sixth-form colleges, and others - offer a variety of education and training programmes different in many ways from those found in other educational institutions, such as schools or universities.
Despite the size and importance of the FE sector, it remains a dark continent of education, known mostly by native report. Does an FE curriculum exist? Or is it merely an infusion of the neighbouring cultures of school and university from one direction, and industrial training from another?
This book provides a brief, accessible account of the further education its scope, content, aims, students, funders. providers, accrediting bodies, modes of attendance, learning methods, and outcomes.
Anna Frankel and Frank Reeves argue that further education possesses a recognisable dissociative or multiform curriculum, bonded by common characteristics, such as voluntary and part-time attendance, an emphasis on practical skill training, and a common statutory and organisational framework. But the curriculum is still segmented into academic, vocational, and training programmes, accompanied by a plethora of examining bodies and means of accreditation.
There are pressures to establish a more coherent pattern of provision, sensitive to student need. The further education curriculum is changing rapidly. The authors describe the emergence of a radical, new. individualised, learning-centre-based FE. underpinned by the Further Education Funding Council's funding methodology.