HEPI’s most recent blue book, A guide to the removal of student number controls, secured extensive interest (and media coverage) last week. It seeks to bring together what we know about the policy, and also highlights some of the issues that still need to be resolved.
I am taking this opportunity to post another piece on the same topic, How will the Ending of Student Number Controls Affect Higher Vocational Education?, which I wrote earlier this year for the Association of Colleges.
It covers some of the same ground as the new blue book, but it also has a particular focus on the interface between colleges and universities and muses on what the changes could mean for the FE sector.