This includes further education which, with a budget of £7bn and rising, is the biggest sector which finds it difficult to demonstrate value for money, ministers believe.
Its report, Managing Finances in English Further Education Colleges, was the end result of a nearly decade-long tale of financial scandals in further education, culminating with the conclusion that over one in five of the entire 416 colleges were experiencing dire cash problems.
Education ministers bleat they want to see "swift" improvements, but at the same time they have quashed the select committee's central recommendation last spring that all college finances should be scrutinised by the National Audit Office.
Since real education seems to require detours, decelerations, leisure and even idleness to reach its optimum, the utopian value of hypermodern acts of education precisely consist in scratching and breaking the logic of this pragmatic way of educating people in asking them to improve the efficiency of their productivity over and over again.
To deconstruct this fiction and danger of techno-scientific models that usually treat people as if the act of education would primarily be a circumstance that efficiently has to form singularities in accordance to an assumed scientific idea, is one of the main interests of this lecture series.
Perhaps to coin the educationact as a contamination of thoughts instead of being merely a form of communicating contents between individuals, so that it becomes, finally, a halt and attitude of intellectual resistance and therefore a new habit of a collective experience of the singularity of thinking as such.
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