TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT: 'Don’t play HE off against FE in election battle'

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Political parties should be wary of pitching the FE and HE sectors against one another in a battle for funding, a policy expert has warned.

Former government adviser Professor Andy Westwood, now vice-dean for social responsibility at the University of Manchester, predicted that the recommendations of the Augar review – which called for a fundamental rebalancing of post-16 funding – would be unlikely to figure prominently in the party manifestos.