The Government white paper Learning to Succeed is likely to become law (probably with a number of minor amendments) sometime during the middle of the year 2000. Further Education has already has a roller coaster existence since the introduction of the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act culminating in a total of 30 per cent efficiency cuts and the loss of some 20,000 members of teaching staff through redundancies and early retirement. However, the future demise of all the Training and Enterprise Councils plus the Further Education Funding Council, under the proposed new structure, shows considerable dissatisfactions by the current government vis-a-vis the quality of leadership in the FE sector over the past six years.
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