Talk:Further education

Merge

Overlap with post-secondary education is considerable. Is it supposed to be specifically UK? Paul foord 00:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Further Education is mainly a UK thing, a step between School and University, I don't think this level is in the American Education System, e.g. when you gain your GED you go straight to University, here you must have GCSEs from School, A-levels from a College of Further Education and then a Degree at University.

So are we saying that the articles should not be merged? That would be my opinion. Terry 22:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I live in the UK and 'Further Education' is used very frequently to mean the stage after GCSE and before university. The term is popular and post-secondary is not so. Skinnyweed 05:05, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Time to remove the tag? FE (Further Education) and HE (Higher Education) are completely distinguishable as stages within the UK Education system. Adult Education is exactly what it says - the Education of Adults, which may happen to occur at an FE institution however that institution is FE completely independently of whether it educates adults or not. The problems with the ambiguity in this article are the repeated attempts to compare Further Education in the UK to educational stages in America. The comparisons don't need to be in the article as they are not relevant and only confuse. Mmorrismjm (talk) 23:46, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

List

I added 4 more Colleges to the List before it occurred to me that there must be hundreds. (My memory throws up 230 as a round figure; but that is probably an under-estimate, and is certainly out of date.) I have'nt had (don't have) time to consult the Department for Education or the Association of Colleges and copy all the info that they must have. But it should be done. Please.

I used to teach in one of these, but am now out of the sector. I believe that what used to be "York Sixth Form College" has now amalgamated with "York College of FE" to become "York College"; Wyke is now "Wyke Sixth Form College" (again - it started as that in 1988, but later became "Wyke College"); and Wilberforce may have done one or both of these changes. Again, the official lists should have up-to-date names and links.

But I have already taken longer over this than I can afford. MacAuslan 07:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Categorising

I think it might be a good idea to put the list of colleges into a category page maybe called U.K. Further Education Colloges.

• Support JMcD 22:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Dito. The list of collogies should be on a list or category page or both. Not in the main article.Rincewind42 10:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

English & Welsh Bias

The lede of this article clearly stats that FE is a United Kingdom term. However the body of the article only discusses English and Welsh education systems. There needs to be more information added to include Scottish and Northern Irish data here.Rincewind42 10:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely, but we need to get some good sources for this. Do you have any ideas? Itsmejudith 14:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Junior college analogue?

Is it reasonable to draw an analog between this notion of "further education" as a step between secondary education and higher education, with the U.S. junior college model? - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 00:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

There are differences because FE colleges take students who are aged 16-18 as well as older adults. In the USA these students would be in high school. But some of the education and training that the colleges offer is similar to what the junior colleges do. Itsmejudith (talk) 11:39, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

A Levels first paragraph

A Levels should be mentioned in the first paragraph not just more vocational qualifications? Jonpatterns (talk) 17:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)