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The End of TECs: A Challenge for Partners and Successor Bodies to Maintain Discretionary Activity

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  • Mark Ramsden
  • R. J. Bennett
  • Crispian Fuller

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This paper examines the scale and form of discretionary activity in Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs). Discretionary activity was a key aspect of TECs. In particular it underpinned their role to be flexible local agents offering leadership and finance to lever partnerships with other agents. The paper examines TEC discretionary activity at the peak of its development in 2000. This amounted to about 200m per annum. Their activity covered fields of economic development, business support, education and training, and workforce development. TECs were abolished from April 2001. The paper examines the challenges faced by successor bodies (the Learning and Skills Council, Regional Development Agencies, and the Small Business Service) in maintaining significant local initiatives. TEC projects chiefly depended on the TEC for both leadership and finance. Without a continuation of both, many local projects will disappear and employer commitment is endangered. Employer commitment is shown chiefly to have involved large national firms, or significant local and regional employers. Their commitments and the need for leadership appear to be the most fragile elements, which are hence most vulnerable.

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  • Mark Ramsden & R. J. Bennett & Crispian Fuller, 2002. "The End of TECs: A Challenge for Partners and Successor Bodies to Maintain Discretionary Activity," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 231-246.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:23:y:2002:i:3:p:231-246
    DOI: 10.1080/0144287022000046000
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