15 February 2002
At present, money is clawed back from colleges that fail to recruit sufficient students in certain groups even though they may exceed their overall number of learners or funding units. In future, the LSC said on February 11, colleges will only have to pay money back when they fail to hit their overall target.
The move follows the setting up of a bureaucracy-busting task force, chaired by Sir George Sweeney, principal of Knowsley Community College. 'The removal of separate clawback against student number targets is the start of sensible changes to the way we work and to how principals are held to account,' he said.
The council, meanwhile, has named 70 colleges that are to be centres of vocational excellence (Cove), specialising in different curriculum areas. Under the £100m initiative, half of the 350 general FE colleges in England are expected to have a 'Cove' in at least one department by 2004.
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