The BIS White Paper hits the Learning and Skills sector hard.
Budgets are slashed, SMTs talk of little but survival, and some excellent staff leave – some without having the chance to resign.
What we need is an intervention designed to help colleges let go of the past, re-invent and share their vision, and engage everyone, willingly and effectively, in creating their new future.
It will be tough: it already is. But this is the point at which colleges and independent providers have a real chance to create a brand new enterprise: a Phoenix Project.