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Linking London: Partnership, Success and Future Further Education Landscape and the Future Paul Head, Principal and Chief Executive March 2010. Where does it feel we are coming from…even if it’s not true . Ploughing a furrow… we knew the world we were in.
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Linking London: Partnership, Success and Future Further Education Landscape and the Future Paul Head, Principal and Chief Executive March 2010
Ploughing a furrow…we knew the world we were in • Sense of Direction: public service reform not revolution • Manage, in control of what's happening • Expanding resources • Change that could be managed • Keep the quality right, no problems • Hit the targets, get the money
Riding two, even more, horses…change is constant and uncertain…. • Expanding resources but it can’t continue • Need to plan for reductions and make best use of what remains • Will be testing of our skills and experience • New political and economic directions • Response to recession, prepare for recovery • Innovate, react, create, lots of risk
Current Context: Learners • For Learners it’s very personal… • “fees, debts, will I get a job at the end of this, if I do this course now the recovery might have started by the time I finish, how much will I get paid, am I doing the right course, will I get to university, feeling safe in an uncertain world” • Access to opportunities to succeed, high aspirations, high expectations of services, ‘driven’, success • Where will the jobs be, what does a career look like at 18, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, personal risk
Current Context: Colleges • Recession, recovery and public spending • Dealing with present, planning for the future, we all know reductions in public spending is coming (Monday), the uncertainty of the scale, future years • Managing change in an world of expanding resources is very different from doing it in a static and even declining one • Are we, leaders and managers at all levels, equipped with the skills to manage service improvement with declining resources, scale of reduction will be significant
Current Context: Colleges • Organisation, simplification and regulation, a balance, be careful what you wish for • Savings and investment • 5% is one thing, 10% another. 20% is different, 30% needs you to rethink • Consolidation and shake out, specialisation, small or large • Public sector 2020 what does it mean for FE • The fundamentals are the same….aren't they?
So where are we going, using the horses differently…. making sense of change and new alignments….David and Nick…