Lifelong Learning

Issue 897

Dear gair rhydd,

In response to the letter (11th May) from the Vice-Chancellor regarding the closure of Humanities at LEARN, I am concerned by his lack of attention to the main issues in hand.

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Lifelong Learning

Issue 897

Dear gair rhydd,

How could the Welsh Assembly Government with a clear conscience possibly approve cutting the teaching of Welsh, of all subjects, plus the Humanities at Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning?

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Thank You Nightline

Issue 897

Dear gair rhydd,

I attended the Society Awards on Saturday. I would firstly like to congratulate the organisers for a brilliant event, but I was disappointed to find that the Award for the ‘Most Charitable Society’ was judged on the amounts of money raised. Both the SVC and RAG have done a fantastic job and fully deserve their awards but I think the criteria is unnecessarily narrow.

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EU Must Vote

Issue 897

Dear gair rhydd,

I would like to draw your attention to the complete lack of publicity regarding the upcoming European Elections. I hope in the run up to the elections the writers of gair rhydd will give some coverage to the European Parliament elections, rather than focussing on stories such as ‘squatters in sheds’ which do provide light entertainment but are nowhere near as important as exercising our democratic privileges.

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Dreaming The Dream

Issue 897

Dear gair rhydd,

I am a part-time tutor at the Lifelong Learning Department. In recent months I have become both angry and disillusioned when I have read of the extortionate pay increases of university vice-chancellors and the cavalier way in which departments have been axed in universities throughout Britain. Also, I recently read that President Barack Obama has refused the public funding accorded by Congress to every new president for the refurbishment of the private presidential apartments at the White House. He apparently said that in these times of severe economic difficulty he felt duty bound to pay for such out of his own personal income.

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