Comments on: Students thrown off English course at Manchester College

By: Manchester Mule Article : New contracts strictly imposed on Manchester College staff as principal raises own pay « Joe Beech

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:15:48 +0000

[...] of “institutional fraud” in the House of Commons, massiveredundancies, and 300 students thrown off ESOL courses due to management incompetence, Tavernor has increased his pay to £193,970 from under £180,000 [...]

By: Manchester College staff strike back — MULE

Manchester College staff strike back — MULE — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:03:30 +0000

[...] as one of belligerence and ruthless anti-unionism. That is not to mention numerous accusations of incompetence and high-profile investigations into claims of “institutional fraud” within TMC, which refused [...]

By: New contracts strictly imposed on Manchester College staff as principal raises own pay — MULE

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:23:40 +0000

[...] of “institutional fraud” in the House of Commons, massive redundancies, and 300 students thrown off ESOL courses due to management incompetence, Tavernor has increased his pay to £193,970 from under £180,000 in [...]

By: Manchester College’s “strong management” — MULE

Thu, 27 May 2010 12:18:01 +0000

[...] reform groups and the college lecturers’ union UCU. In a similar cock up last autumn, up to 300 students were thrown off its English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course, with the Council’s Manchester Adult Education Service forced to bring about a last-minute [...]

By: anonynmous

anonynmous — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:51:42 +0000

I’m not surprised, The Manchester College has a history of doing shady things and subsequently refusing to comment on it

By: M

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:15:09 +0000

I find it odd that the resources have been cut. In other European countries such language training is funded by the European Social Fund

By: anon

anon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:02:21 +0000

I’m also curious to see what happens to the teaching staff who would have been teaching these courses. If you google Marina Parha, Mancat, Peter Tavenor you will see that they have form…

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:04:52 +0000

It might be fine for you to walk ten miles Xion, but I don’t think that everyone could make it. What about older people or people with disabilities. Also not everyone has been reassigned. Those that have been are being funded by the Working Neighbourhoods fund which is supposed to be for other things, meaning other programmes will miss out. All in all it’s a big fuck up by the College.

By: Xion

Xion — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:40 +0000

oh, no, walk an extra 10 miles to continue their education. i’d walk 10 miles to have my education, and my education isn’t as critical as theirs is. life is hard, and even harder if you dont speak english. you just gotta get on with it.