On Monday 27 March 2006 the Government published its White Paper Further Education: Raising Skills, Improving Life Chances.  From here you can access the report in full.  From the DfES website:

This White Paper builds on the existing 14-19 Education and Skills White Paper and Skills Strategy to set out a series of reforms which will raise skills and qualification levels for young people and adults to world standards. The proposed changes will offer more choice for customers, tailor services to meet individuals’ needs, encourage new, innovative providers to enter the market, and promote action to tackle poor quality combined with more autonomy for the excellent.

These reforms will equip learners with high-quality skills for productive, sustainable employment and personal fulfilment; and they will ensure that employers have the right skills for their business to succeed in a competitive global economy. Together, they will enable the system to achieve its full potential as the driver for economic growth and social mobility.

Further Education: Raising skills Improving life Chances

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White Paper launched on Monday 27th March 2006 setting out a comprehensive programme of change for the FE system.