Our Bath MP’s recent visit to Bath College brought quite a reaction from you my followers.
While the educational institution’s prospects may be more positive, you weren’t too pleased about losing many of your Love 2Learn courses.
Wera Hobhouse was given a detailed explanation when she made inquiries on behalf of constituents who had approached her but – for whatever reason – won’t allow me to use that.
Her official reply, for me to use, was pretty vague to say the least.
I think we all know it’s a question of finance, but l think people would be more understanding if they were told why these economies had to be made.
Anyway, l HAVE heard from Bath College. A response apparently came last week but didn’t see it in my mailbox.
I am grateful that the response was sent out again and it reads: ‘We thank you for your coverage of the visit ( by Wera Hobhouse ) but we wish to advise that the College won’t be commenting further.’
It’s not just the fact that they have stopped the love to learn courses it’s the way and manner in which they did it. There was no consultation or discussion. Many of the participants had been attending these courses for many years but loyalty seems to count for nothing these days. I also believe that the college is scape goating the ceramics course as they did need to update expensive equipment but that did not apply to a number of the other courses.
Hello Richard. Thank you very much for persuing this topic further. As one of the dozens of students who have been sadly impacted by the very sudden & very badly-managed closure of L2L courses, you have brought to attention the need & importance of Adult Learning, within the local community. It’s very hard to fathom why the courses stopped, if College are citing ‘financial’ reasons as their goals : as the ceramics /textile courses were always – always – oversubscribed & in high demand.
Thoughts go to our excellent tutors who suddenly found themselves jobless.