In tandem with considering savings, we need to explore how to flex the college system and the whole infrastructure framework to make it easier for colleges to do things that they might not have considered before.Official Report - Education, Children and Young People Committee - 1 June 2022, Col 5
The SFC has recommended that the Scottish Government “explore giving colleges more flexibility or that it push the boundaries of those flexibilities where it can”.Official Report - Education, Children and Young People Committee - 5 October 2022, Col 35-36
In his evidence to the Committee, the Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training committed to looking at flexibilities including whether there needs to be such a level of credit...