More cash and new routes to skills 


Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in the Budget that vocational and technical education in England is to get an extra £500 million a year for new T-levels. 


The plans include replacing 13,000 qualifications with 15 “routes” in a bid to train more skilled workers.


However, the new courses are only expected to start from the 2019-20 academic year. Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU college lecturers’ union, said Hammond needs to look at “a rounded funding package that covers young people and adults and introduce it now, not at the end of the decade”.

http://feweek.co.uk/2017/03/04/chancellor-to-announce-over-500m-per-year-in-extra-funding-for-post-16-skills-reform/