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From a skills committee perspective, our focus is on gathering the best possible evidence on which to advise boards on the best way to shape provision in order to ensure that it meets employers’ needs today and tomorrow.We talked a little about why that is difficult.
It is not that higher education is better than further education or vice versa; the question is what is right for the individual young person and their skills, talents and aspirations, and how that is best supported by our wider education and skills system.
Is there a risk that we will be at best inconveniencing such a person? There is a degree of stigma attached to some of the drugs that people might take for a particular condition, and we may inadvertently entrench such attitudes.
If the franchising model could deliver that best, we would support it. If, in other areas, it was a partnership model that was best, we would support that as well.