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Leadership Development in Further Education

As a result of reduced government funding and the pressures of the current economic climate, many further education colleges are facing significant challenges and changes. The likely impact of these challenges is that there will be:

* Job cuts
* Programme losses.
* Requirements for further efficiency savings and increases in productivity.
* Potential college merges and takeovers, with the emergence of national providers.

At the same time as managing the funding challenges, many colleges will also be striving to improve their quality and student outcomes.

These pressures will require colleges to change the way they design and deliver their programmes and services. They will need to provide high quality programmes that have a much lower level of affordability and services that are leaner and cost less to provide.

A key factor in delivering these changes will be the ability of senior managers within colleges to lead, inspire and influence their staff to be engaged and committed to change.

Many colleges will therefore have an urgent need to:
* Understand in detail the strengths and development needs of key managers.
* Prepare and deliver appropriate leadership and management development interventions to up skill key managers to enable them to successfully lead and deliver change, drive up quality and improve performance.
The long term potential implication for individual colleges is that if managers and staff do not change and step up to the challenge, there is a real risk of further cuts in funding or the college being merged with or taken over by another college. It is therefore vital that further education colleges recognise these needs and invest in the appropriate development of their leaders and managers.