Dr. Jen Harvey:

My colleagues have addressed quite a number of his points and I agree with many of the points made. There needs to be much stronger discussion or liaison between further education, FE, and higher education. I do not think there is enough consideration of those pathways. We should be talking about how we can work better together. There is a drift upwards, because of student demand, to more level 8 courses. That is happening in many institutions and I think it is wrong. There should be much more discussion about the pathways because the system is very disjointed. We are not having the correct conversations. There is a value system for higher education that is not right.