We had a productive meeting at the Hancock Museum discussing our recent trip to the Ouseburn. One of the areas we looked at was the Toffee factory. Val had looked up a web site which gave a very good social history account of workers taken from first hand interviews with former workers. We looked at a handout which was an abridged version of the web site which you can read here:
Maynards.pdf
The best source is the original web site which includes some fabulous photographs. It was written by Silvie Fisch and can be found here.
Toffee Factory a Little History
Newcastle City Learning
Our best efforts to keep down the cost of the City Learning Courses and prevent the accreditation process has failed for this year and it looks like costs will continue to rise and the accreditation process will become standard. We tried hard to get Newcastle's Adult Learning away from this entrenched idea that every Life Long Learner requires accreditation. Sadly it is not just Newcastle but every major learning vendor, here is a snip it from Kent Adult Education:I think this sums up Further Education as opposed to Life Long Learning which is the poor relative. Life Long Learning makes a great contribution to the quality of people lives and to their mental health it brings together communities and individuals of all races, religions, gender and ages.An accredited course will:
- hone your skills,
- build your confidence, and
- give you a qualification in the subject.
Having the qualification will impress your future customers, and could help secure finance for your business.
Andrew Harden writing in the TES, formally the Times Educational Supplement states:
Investing in learning makes financial as well as practical sense. We know that for every £1 of public money invested in FE, the government gets £1.20 back. But there's work to be done to convince the government that investment in more than just apprenticeships is worthwhile.
HARDEN, A. Invest to secure the skills post-Brexit Britain needs.
TES, 2016, No 52222, 53
Michael will continue with the current Flash Points in History Course in the new year beginning on January 9. The course will be listed in the new brochure which will be published on November 28. Here is a link to the City Learning site:
Newcastle City Learning
At the moment the course will be a Blue Accredited course which will evolve setting up Individual Learning Plans, an extra week has been allocated for this along with a presentation of our work in the form of an essay of between 700 and 800 words. The course is subsidised for individuals on an income level of £14,000 or less and in order to get a considerably reduced course fee you would need to apply for Discretionary Learner Support Funds' (DLS) which you should apply for as soon as possible because it is limited. Here is the web site details on Financial Support.
Financial support
Notes for your Diary
26th & 27th November The Holly Biscuit
An exhibition and sale of ceramics, jewellery and Christmas decorations by 14 local Ceramic artists.
Just recieved a note from our friends Strawdust Jacks
Just having a bit of fun with this song - 'Cynical Man'.
It's a bit different from our usual offering, but had to get it off our chests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
