Dear Messenger,
Why has the Government cut back on so much education/ESOL. In some ways there is some justification for this, but they are stopping people accessing courses.
Not everyone can or wants to go to University, nor can people always afford to pay £100 for college courses. The Open University can be a very long and expensive course. This is not suitable for all people.
I am a housewife living with a partner we are not entitled to any benefits nor have we ever claimed any. So all study courses have to be paid in full. There have been some free courses in the past. Some courses have charged a small fee, i.e. craft courses and some health courses. Many of these were very well attended.
So why can’t a provider fund any courses in Burngreave/Fir Vale? Not everyone wants to do hair beauty or henna, some of us want more intellectual or academic courses. Even child care and computing are now fee paying courses. Can any funding provider help? Or shall we just crawl under a stone and hide?
Hopeful,
Yasmin Khan
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