Tony Blair acknowledges FE
6th February 2006
Prime Minister’s Priorities
Many of you will no doubt be aware of the comments made by the Prime Minister in a television interview with Andrew Marr recently. For your information, the exchange went as follows:
Andrew Marr:
You've got a series of big reforms which we've talked about, which were in the manifesto. They are going to be on the statute book, or not, depending on those parliamentary battles ahead, by this time next year. What more have you got to do after that?
Tony Blair:
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Well I think that what there will be, because right at the end, after you've got this reform programme through, you'll have the next stages of it. For example, I think in education the really big issue for the future will be about, not just about how you improve education at school but how you improve adult skills, further education, where I think there are real issues to do with reform and change, and then there's a new agenda for that. Now, you know, that's for the future.
The Prime Minister’s remarks represent a welcome recognition of the importance of further education to many of the goals set by his Government, and a significant raising of the profile of our sector.
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