The recent report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) on education spending in England, warned that the way the FE funding system works could result in a real-terms fall in funding per student this year. This article reports that an AoC survey reveals many colleges have had increases in 16 to 18 enrolments at the same time as additional costs due to COVID-19 and the AoC is calling for the government to reallocate unused apprenticeship funding to colleges.
