The 157 Group recently published "Adult further education--the unfinished revolution," a policy paper setting out proposals for a truly market-driven further education sector in which the choices of individuals and individual employers are central in determining the programmes that are offered. Their overall aim is to allow institutions to respond directly to the needs of those who use their services, rather than targets and priorities set by officials in Whitehall. The Group supports the removal of the layers of local, regional, and sectoral planning that had been established, and they agree that colleges should be free to work with their local communities to determine the pattern of provision that best meets local needs. The difficulty, however, is that, at the very time these restrictions are being dismantled, another apparatus of central control, built around eligibility and entitlement, is being erected.