FE Week:
Government silent on adult skills behavioural research centre funding
3 March 2017
The government is refusing to say whether more funding will be given to two “pioneering” FE research centres after their start-up grants end shortly.
Meanwhile, the Centre for Vocational Education Research is beginning to publish its own projects after being given a £3 million government grant in May 2015. Dr Sandra McNally leads the centre, and said that in the two years it has been running, her team has focused on “huge administrative data”, such as individual learner records, the national pupil database and longitudinal education outcomes data, in an attempt to process, code and apply it to their research.