... system of competitive tendering, which although it was being brought in incrementally, was already having a significant impact on institutional management. This article examines the tasks facing such managers, trying to compile crucially important bids against a background of changing ground rules...

.... This article traces the first major acts of the new PCFC, especially the introduction of a new funding system, part of which brings competitive tendering into the state education system for the first time. The new system has posed significant new challenges to college management and could well be extended...