15 April 2009
Welcome to the McClintock base. It’s been a quiet few months
for yours truly online but not in the adult educational field. The Department
for Innovation, Universities and Skills released its ‘learning revolution’
white paper, pledging £20m to further people’s education! Twenty mil? Right
Path Management has already invested more than that in a way in our Personal
Development Centres, now up to 13 in number nationwide.
Nevertheless, this thinly veiled attempt to bump up the
numbers being instructed via ‘informal learning’ won’t derail genuine
initiatives such as TrainFame. We are delivering upskilled, employable young
adults by the call centre-load, and if the DWP, BERR and DIUS had any sense
they’d hand us a tranche of development funds to roll out worldscale job creation
schemes.
There is a still role to play in getting out to the community, inspiring people by giving them a flavour of what it is we do. And RPM does not shun spreading the message in the most blighted areas (as I say in my corporate presentation – Real help now for the skills savvy in our communities, now). To that end, we are back in south-east London on Thursday 23 April, at Lee’s ‘Dirty South’ club, rolling out the Socratic vibes. Come fire yourself up.
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