Peter Aldous welcomes the Skills for Jobs White Paper and calls for an enhanced, simplified and multi-year funding settlement to ensure the success of colleges such as East Coast College.
Peter Aldous campaigns for more funding for Sixth Forms and Colleges and is a Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sixth Form Education.
The APPG has written to the Chancellor setting out our recommendations.
The recommendations are:
- Introduce a dedicated capital expansion fund for sixth form providers
- Raise the rate of funding for sixth form students to at least £4,760 per year
- Extend the teachers' pay grant to sixth form colleges
- Introduce a capital maintenance fund for dedicated sixth form providers
- Introduce a VAT refund scheme for sixth form colleges
Peter Aldous outlines the leading role colleges can play in our recovery from the covid-19 pandemic and backs the Association of Colleges calls for college business centres to be set up to support employers and for a new deal for college funding.
Peter Aldous asks the Government to support colleges such as East Coast College as they face the challenge of supporting 16 to 19-year-old students whose courses have been badly disrupted and also for a funding review to help specific cash-flow difficulties.
Peter Aldous speaks in a debate on post-16 education and backs the Sixth Form Colleges Association campaign for the 16-to-18 funding rate to be increased to £4,760. He highlights the particular challenges in coastal communities.