This study took place within the context of national policy steering, involving both the Further and Higher Education (FHE) sectors, and focussed on the impact of policy on practitioners. A critical point to this study was the concept of educational partnerships and the effectiveness of further education (FE) colleges as providers of higher education (HE). The research claims that the FHE Institutional Environment is dominated by a FE professional cultural element, whose predominant norms and values serve to produce a diluted HE experience for its students. When HE students are taught...
This study took place within the context of national policy steering, involving both the Further and Higher Education (FHE) sectors, and focussed on t...