ABSTRACT
Colin Flint reveals a deep commitment to releasing the potential of FE in support of new visions and purposes for education and training in the 21st century. He demonstrates how necessary it is to combine managing change within a college with activity in the political arena. Like Webb and Harrison, he identifies the contradictions that need to be handled ‘from the top’: between government policy intentions and implementation; between declared commitments to widening access and specific interventions and behaviours. All this makes the leadership of educational institutions ‘more demanding, more fraught than ever before’.
