With some fanfares, one of the most important official reports for both further education (FE) and higher education (HE) was launched in May 2019 – the Independent Panel Report to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding. Although most subsequent comment and debate has focused on its implications for funding both FE and HE in England (only) and issues such as student fees and maintenance grants, its remit and objectives went far wider. The report’s Foreword clearly sets out its general approach to the topic. It states that the report is a “story of both care and neglect” as between HE and FE. There is a “disparity [that] simply has to be addressed . . . [as] a matter of fairness and equity”. Universities receive £8 billion in public funding each year, whereas FE receives £2.3 billion and even that has been declining. Lecturers in FE are paid on average less than school teachers and overall, “the sector is demoralised” after decades of neglect.

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Augar 报告，2019 年——英国法律教育的危险还是机遇？

2019 年 5 月发布了关于继续教育 (FE) 和高等教育 (HE) 的最重要的官方报告之一——18 后教育和资助审查独立小组报告。尽管随后的大多数评论和辩论都集中在其对英格兰（仅）资助 FE 和 HE 的影响以及学生费用和维持补助金等问题上，但其职权范围和目标要广泛得多。报告的前言清楚地阐述了该主题的一般方法。它指出，该报告是 HE 和 FE 之间的“关心和忽视的故事”。有一个“差异 [that] 必须解决。. . [作为]一个公平和公正的问题”。大学每年获得 80 亿英镑的公共资金，而 FE 获得 23 亿英镑，而且这一数字一直在下降。