Education as a commodity: The political economy of the new further education

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 49-66

  Longhurst, Ross J ^a  

^a Loughborough College   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042806162     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309877960200205     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Marx, K., 1970. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 27Moscow: Progress Publishers.
2. Lenin, V.I., 1972. Collected Works, Vol. 38: Philosophical Notebooks, 360–1. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
3. For the last financial year when funds were channelled through the LEAs, 1992/3, the funding per full-time equivalent student ranged from £1,486 through to £4,664 with a median figure of £2,444. See Further Education Funding Council, Circular Ref. No. 93/09, 29/03/93, p.5. The FEFC's funding methodology envisages a progressive convergence towards all colleges receiving funding at the same level for each full-time equivalent student on a given type of course
4. Locke, M., eds. 1988. College Administration: A Handbook, 2nd Ed., Longman. This system is described in, Section 2.2.
5. 1994. The current funding methodology is described in Further Education Funding Council. Guidance on the Recurrent Funding Methodology 1994-5, February
6. As from autumn 1995 YT trainees are to be issued with vouchers, with a sum of money printed on them, for ‘buying’ courses. However this is a meaningless fiction since the voucher simply entitles the young person to go on an appropriate course
7. Bates, I., 1984. Schooling for the Dole?: The New Vocationalism, Macmillan. for early discussion and analysis of this trend
8. Department for Education. 1993. The Charter for Further Education.
9. O'Connor, J., 1973. The Fiscal Crisis of the State, St. James Press.