Colleges offer more than flower arranging

Letters | Published in TESS on 31 January, 2014 | By: Kezia Dugdale

Colleges are a critical part of our education landscape. For a huge proportion of our young people, colleges offer an alternative to higher education and the route to better skills and training, which allows them to access jobs that otherwise would have been beyond them.

But importantly, colleges have traditionally been a place for retraining and upskilling among the adult population. This role is less publicised and less understood. But nonetheless, it has been an invaluable route - often for women and mothers in particular - to begin the process of re-entering the job market.

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