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Chapter 2: On-line Consultation

Issues for Consultation

  • Are our funding principles the right ones?

  • Are there further steps we should be taking to improve the balance of investment in learning between employers, individuals and the public purse?

  • Is it realistic to expect individuals or employers to invest more? If so, what form should this additional investment take?

  • How should learning accounts and the learning smartcard be developed to help people invest in and manage their own learning?

  • On what basis should the Government’s contribution to up to one million learning accounts be allocated?

  • What will be needed to make learning accounts attractive to people, both financially and through the other advantages they will bring?

  • Could learning accounts be used in future to channel others forms of public support for learners?

  • What would be the most effective way of targeting financial support so that more young people from low-income families stay on in full-time education after 16?

  • Are you in favour of support loans being made available to undergraduate students in their early 50s?

  • Are the steps we are taking sufficient to create a fair and effective system of student support?

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