Terry
Hyland is a Lecturer in
Continuing Education at the
Univetsity of Warwick. In the context
of the government's proposals for
the
reform
of further education, this paper
considers how adequate to their stated
and unstated purposes
the reforms
are
likely to be. The author's conclusions
are not optimistic.
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