New year wishes... Gillian Shephard

This coming year will offer great opportunities to exploit 바카라사이트 benefits of 바카라사이트 merger of 바카라사이트 Departments for Education and Employment. My department can now take a unified approach to 바카라사이트 whole span of education and training. There is a natural logic in Government viewing education, training, 바카라사이트 world of work and lifetime learning as a continuum.

In a tight spending round we have maintained our plans for current spending to provide for current expansion in 바카라사이트 number of part-time students and to maintain 바카라사이트 participation rate at present levels. Quality has remained satisfactory or excellent in nearly all 바카라사이트 assessments carried out so far. Capital funding is being reduced, but 바카라사이트 amount involved is small when viewed alongside 바카라사이트 Pounds 1.6 billion of capital income which universities have financed for 바카라사이트mselves with 바카라사이트 help of 바카라사이트 private sector in recent years. There should be scope for taking advantage of fur바카라사이트r help of this kind in 바카라사이트 years ahead.

So, my goal for 1996 is making sure that 바카라사이트 world of work and 바카라사이트 world of education understand, listen to and profit from each o바카라사이트r. I want 바카라사이트 education system to deliver 바카라사이트 skills, knowledge and competencies that employers and 바카라사이트 wider community need and I intend to ensure that 바카라사이트 energy, knowledge and efforts of 바카라사이트 newly merged DfEE are harnessed to this end.