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The Committee plans to undertake the following activities for its inquiry:
[NB This component should be removed once it has been superseded by meetings and activities that have actually taken place.
Furthermore, short cycle programmes increase the pressure for distributors to ‘get money out the door’ which can restrict up-take, outreach, and quality of application.
In the case of colleges, they also undermine some of our local communities, which are desperately trying to address economic inactivity by getting more people back into the labour force.
We are broadly supportive of that and, obviously, the provision remains that you get an individual authorisation, or potentially a general authorisation in relation to the register of competence, to undertake those activities.