"I am delighted to be able to sponsor and publish this book on funding and I am confident it will prove an invaluable resource for you, our centres. We all know that an effective understanding of funding can have huge impact in determining the successful running of a college and in turn the educational performance of the learners within it. We are committed to supporting our centres, constantly innovating to provide a better service, and this book, alongside the LSC guidance, helps you understand funding for the broad range of post-16 provision on offer to your learners."
Jerry Jarvis, Managing Director, Edexcel
"Lewisham College is proud to be behind the publication of this book which will help our sector navigate their way through the emerging complexity at this time of change. As a college, we recognise the importance of being both clear in purpose and outstanding in results. This book is a resource which enables Lewisham College to not only deliver the outstanding successes that we are known for, but also to help us to do it with intelligence and sensitivity. We are glad to have it."
Dame Ruth Silver, Principal, Lewisham College and Chair of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
"Colleges will find 2008 a particularly challenging year. Tighter budgets, ambitious targets, pressure of numbers, new qualifications and systems re-shaping will all play a part in the interesting times ahead. Alongside all this, colleges will be grappling with the new funding formula and this book should prove an invaluable guide. A must-have for anyone concerned with funding in the further education system."
Julian Gravatt, Director of Funding and Development, Association of Colleges (AoC)
"The ALP are delighted that demand-led funding has been agreed as the right way forward in advancing the Government’s skills strategy. The expansion of apprenticeships and the additional Train to Gain flexibilities are also very positive steps and a significant opportunity for work-based learning providers and the employers they work with. This guide will be welcomed by our members; the practical approach to funding will help build their knowledge and understanding in order to respond to the changing funding system with confidence."
Graham Hoyle, Chief Executive of the Association of Learning Providers (ALP)
"The new LSC plan-led funding system brings with it significant changes to the way school sixth forms are funded. Amongst the key changes are a new funding formula using individual school success rates rather than the national average, a funding cap set at the level equivalent to 4.25 AS/A levels per student, a change in the way Additional Learning Support funding is distributed and the use of retrospective data. This book, which explains the sixth form funding system in simple and straightforward terms, will be a useful tool for anyone getting to grips with the complex world of post-16 funding."
Malcolm Trobe, National Council Member (LSC), former President of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), former Headteacher, Malmesbury School and now Policy Director ASCL
"Whilst this book is clearly not associated with, endorsed by, or written by the LSC, it may well prove to be valuable for those readers wanting to know where the 08/09 funding system came from, how the principles work (in some detail) and Nick’s view of where it is going. Nick is a well-respected member of the FE sector who has an excellent understanding of the funding system and how it works in practice."
Alex Cook, Senior Funding Policy Implementation Manager, Learning and Skills Council (LSC)