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Savings threaten ability of colleges to deliver IAG

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Government efficiency savings could threaten professionals' ability to deliver on the Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) strategy, college leaders have warned.

Quality, Choice and Aspiration, published last week, sets out the government's vision for a new era of personalised, impartial careers advice and IAG. It promises students access to individual tutoring from September 2010.

But the "enrichment funding" budget that colleges currently use to finance personal tutoring is feared to be under threat.

Malcolm Trobe, policy director at the Association of School and College Leaders, said colleges would find it hard to deliver more tailored IAG if their budgets were reduced. He said: "The government has said there has to be efficiency savings, so there is a real concern that the enrichment budget will go first."

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