Incorporation and the Mangement of Industrial Relations in the PCFC Sector

Abstract

Until the 1988 Education Reform Act, a large part of English higher education was provided by polytechnics and colleges of higher education that were under local authority control (LEAs) and were collectively known as public sector higher education. The 1988 Education Reform Act split this sector from the LEAs and handed control and all assets over to newly constituted Higher Education Corporations (HECs) that were run by the institutions boards of governors. All staff cntracts were also transferred making the HECs the employer instead of the LEAs. The majority of the funding was to come from the Government channelled through a body called by Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council (PCFC). From that time on, until the establishment of the current Higher Education Funding Councils, the area was known as the PCFC sector. Direct Government funding of similar institutions already existed in Northern Ireland and in Scotland. Wales was excluded from these changes at this time and the sector remained partly with the LEAs.

Citation

Arthur, L. (1994), "Incorporation and the Mangement of Industrial Relations in the PCFC Sector", Management Research News, Vol. 17 No. 7/8/9, pp. 119-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028385