Recommendation(s): 37

Recommendation 37: We recommend to the Government that funding should continue to be available after April 1998, when the present provision from the Higher Education Regional Development Fund is due to cease, to support human capital projects which enable higher education to be responsive to the needs of local industry and commerce.

6.2 DfEE will make £3m available in 1998-99 to support the continuation of the Higher Education Regional Development Fund in England. This Fund will continue to support systematic interaction between higher education and business on skills development. It should also help to embed a culture in which higher education and business see themselves as partners in enhancing human capital.

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