Summary
For the past four years, the bulk of ESOL has been taught under the government's Skills for Life programme. Although this initiative was originally designed to address the serious literacy and numeracy problems among the indigenous adult population - remember those TV gremlin adverts? - at least half the people going through it are doing ESOL. Demand for it is fierce.
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Make the Most of What You've Got
As a pay-off line, "I had a physics professor once in the front of my cab" would hardly do for Private Eye's regular column celebrating the gentle wisdom of London taxi drivers, but many of us could truthfully say it. Taking a minicab in London can be an academically humbling experience. The man at the wheel - it is usually a man -...
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