Further Education

That the Parliament notes that the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning has stated that college waiting lists are a “false concept”; further notes that the Scottish Government's interim report on the audit ordered by the cabinet secretary and carried out by the Scottish Funding Council has indicated that there are waiting lists; accepts that it is important for Scottish Government ministers to be truthful to the Parliament and the public; believes that the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning should apologise and correct his misleading statement, and further believes that the cuts to the college teaching grant that are causing these waiting lists should be reversed.