House of Commons - The Skills Funding Agency and further education funding - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee

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Business, Innovation and Skills Committee - Tenth Report
The Skills Funding Agency and further education funding

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 March 2010.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary
1 Introduction
2 Creation of the Skills Funding Agency

Introduction
The nature of the Skills Funding Agency
The Skills Funding Agency: management of further education funding
SFA management of the further education capital budget
Complexity in the FE system
Delivery functions and partners
Simplification?
The Skills Funding Agency and the Young People's Learning Agency
Funding Streams: the SFA and the YPLA
Capital Funding: the SFA and the YPLA
The National Apprenticeship Service

3 Skills Strategies

Introduction
National Strategic Skills Audit
Regional Skills Strategies
Tensions within the skills strategy system?

4 Administration of the Change Programme

Introduction
Consultation on the design of the SFA
Transitional Arrangements
Costs of transition
Staffing
A change of culture

5 Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix: Delivery partners in further education
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of Written Evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence
2 February 2010
9 February 2010
Written Evidence



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