Expanded Cultural Opportunities for Children
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Well, a welcome announcement from our government to give young people - especially those in poorer areas - guaranteed access to five hours of quality cultural activity a week.
This is more like it. The Teacher Unions have made an early and rather sad but expected criticism of the scheme. But it is important to [...]
Welcome Development on the Language Front
Friday, January 4th, 2008Well it may be a U-Turn but the re-introdcution of free English language teaching for recent arrivals is very welcome. It is amazing just how much provision vanished overnight when the charging policy was introduced and this gave a lot of concern to those working with the newly arrived communities.
This morning the media has focussed [...]
Training for Adults
Monday, November 19th, 2007I don’t know about you, but I’ve been spending some time pondering the announcement, at the end of last, week about the expansion of training programmes.
I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the “British Jobs for British people” notion and I see that this has been enough for some people to write off the initiative. But [...]
