 In February 2015 the UK government announced cuts to the adult skills budget of £249m for 2015-16. Despite this, further education colleges are being challenged to invest more in digital technology to deliver courses that are flexible and designed to meet the diverse needs of their learners. ECU Serves Learning Resources in FE survey of over 150 staff Revealed that colleges struggle to afford the commercially available resources needed to support teaching and learning. In fact existing provision is being reviewed even though it often fails to meet student and staff expectations. The top priority for most colleges is to increase the range of digital learning resources in the next academic year. This is not without challenges as technology is widely regarded as simply a cost rather than a vital investment in the learning experience. Colleges have a strong will to invest more in digital learning but they just can't afford all the resources they need and budgets could get worse before they get better. In addition to budget cuts, two other barriers to innovation remain. The diversity of the college sector means that it can be difficult to leverage its collective negotiation power to get the best prices for the right learning resources. And there are many great teachers in FE colleges with exciting and innovative ideas for making better use of learning technologies but the means to share these ideas across the sector are limited. Now is the time to work together within the sector to remove the barriers to collaboration and to secure better deals for FE and this is where EDU Serve can help. We help colleges maximize their budgets by negotiating preferential terms and reduce prices for software and online resources. We work in partnership with the sector and are always happy to talk about opportunities for new deals. For more information download the full report and contact us to see how we can help.