Adult Learners Week And The Review Of Post-16 Education And Training

EDM number 642 in 1998-99, proposed by David Chaytor on 12/05/1999.

That this House congratulates the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education on promoting the 1999 Adult Learners Week and welcomes the Government's initiative in announcing a comprehensive review of post-16 education and training; further welcomes the record programme of investment announced by the Government last November; notes the gross discrepancies in per capita funding of 16 to 19 year old students on equivalent courses which result from the existence of three different funding regimes; appreciates the difficulties of ensuring effective quality control with three different inspection regimes; recognises the appalling consequences in some colleges and TECs of the present inadequate arrangements for financial and managerial accountability; and calls on the Government to ensure that the Post-16 Review develops new proposals for greater co-ordination and fairness of the financing and delivery of lifelong learning which place the needs of individual learners at the heart of the planning process.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs.