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Date: 21st March 1991
Service: CEEFAX
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Original Broadcast Channel: BBC1
Current Page: 175
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P175 CEEFAX 175 Thu 21 Mar 21:03/16 1/2 Education Secretary Kenneth Clarke has said new legislation will remove all 16+ further education colleges from local authority control. The Education Secretary would appoint a new college education council, which would provide the £2bn a year the new collegj sector needed from April 1993. The new funding council would be accountable directly to him, he added. Sixth form colleges were included in the proposals, which had been under discussion for some time and were made solely for education reasons, he said. 102Newswatch 180World news Next News Parl'ment Politics WorldNews
P175 CEEFAX 175 Thu 21 Mar 21:56/01 2/2 Kenneth Clarke insisted that a new sector of tertiary colleges was being created solely for educational reasons.Further education colleges were "still subject to bureaucratic controls from local authorities", he said. The Education Secretary said colleges lacked the full freedom to respond to the needs of the labour market, which had already been given to polytechnics and higher education colleges. The polytechnics were showing increasedstudent numbers and efficiency without any loss of academic standards, he said102Newswatch 180World news Next News Parl'ment Politics WorldNews