How £2 billion of the further education budget is wasted
November 4th, 2009 by Alison Wolf
England once had a system of education for adults that was highly diverse, locally responsive, and an avenue for social mobility. No longer. As I explain in a new monograph published by the IEA, our further and adult education has been laid waste by Soviet-style central planning.
At a conservative estimate, £2 billion a year is being wasted, spent on activities which do nothing for either the economy or individual learners. Some of this is the cost of quangos, which change with dizzying speed; more than 20 have come or gone in the last four years alone…
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