MGC will certainly be responding to this document. If anyone has any
points they would like to see included in the response please do contact
me. I will put our response on the GEM site when it has been completed.
Sue Wilkinson
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> From: Roland Jackson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: Roland Jackson
> Sent: 02 July 1999 14:42
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: White Paper - Learning to Succeed
>
> List members may have seen the news of the release of the FE White
> Paper
> 'Learning to Succeed'. The summary is on the web at
> http://www.dfee.gov.uk/post16/sect_exec.htm and whole thing in pdf at
> http://www.dfee.gov.uk/post16/pdfindex.htm.
>
> Given the increasing interest of many of us in developing the use of
> museums by post-16 audiences there is a clear need to make our case
> more
> persuasively and to work more noticeably with the sector to open up
> opportunities. (I hope I won't be the only museum person at the FEDA
> National Conference next week on the proposed College Diploma). I can
> only
> find one reference in the whole document (in para 7.32) to museums
> although, to be fair, the paper is largely about big structural
> issues.
>
> It would be useful to know from our MGC or other 'official body'
> colleagues
> on this list what formal responses might be planned to the
> consultation on
> the paper. Hopefully the revision of 'Commonwealth' will give us some
> specific ammunition.
>
> Roland
>
>
> Dr Roland Jackson, Head of Education and Programmes
> Science Museum, London SW7 2DD
> http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/education/
> Tel: 44 (0)171 938 9760 (fax: 9804)
>
> NB Phone and fax numbers will change on 5 July
> New phone number: 44 (0)20 7942 4710
> New fax number: 44 (0)20 7942 4712
>
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