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Affordability: College care underfunded
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
3 January 2008
The funding allocated to provide childcare for student parents in further education is not enough for colleges to support them, a Daycare Trust report has found.
Childcare for adult learners in higher education, produced by the Daycare Trust and the Nuffield Foundation, examines the childcare support and funding offered to students aged over 20 in the UK. The Trust surveyed colleges in Nottinghamshire and London, interviewed staff and monitored calls to their information line. Joint chief executive of the Daycare Trust, Emma Knights, said, 'The majority of colleges reported that there is more need than they have funding for. A lot of colleges subsidise adult learners'...
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