I know that this may not apply to all Colleges in Scotland but I would be surprised if this opinion did not cover 90% of them –they will all be empty for the next 6 -8 weeks. Why???

I worked in Colleges over the past 20 years and it was always thus –the staff go off for the summer and these enormous community assets close down. In fact College usage for the year barely gets over 40% of the time available I remember being told –evenings, weekends, public holidays, summer time etc are times when most are closed

Isn’t it time that the Scottish Government came up with another funding mechanism for Further Education? What if Colleges had to achieve employment target destinations for their students?

75% of our students still are out of work after 1 year

50% of our graduates still find work, eventually, in a vocational area OTHER than they were qualified in –and this is the figure I remember being quoted 20 years ago!!

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