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Dear Dominic

The advice you are giving is not quite accurate.  The Citizenship for ESOL Learners materials are actually part of the legislation for UK Citizenship and Settlement so only these learning materials or those derived directly from them, will be considered acceptable by the Home Office.  The current Citizenship letter specifically says that the ESOL qualification must be taken whilst studying these citizenship materials or “using materials derived from The Citizenship for ESOL Learners pack produced for the Home Office by NIACE and LLU+”.

Best wishes

Chris

 

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From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of dominic mccabe
Sent: 01 July 2011 11:50
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Subject: Re: Citizenship letter

 

 

The ESOL curriculum and associated materials/topics embed citizenship content (work, health, money, etc) so anyone who has done any ESOL and passed any external test can reasonably claim to have studied ESOL in a citizenship context and with citizenship embedded in their learning.

 

Cheers Dominic

 

From: Barbara Spence <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, 1 July 2011, 10:18
Subject: Citizenship letter

I wonder if anyone can advise.

 

We have a student who passed S&L in 2005 and took a discrete Citizenship class in 2007, based around the ESOL Citizenship learning pack.  The current Citizenship letter specifically says that the ESOL qualification must be taken whilst studying citizenship materials: she did not specifically do this, but DID study Citizenship materials in a separate course alongside her ESOL course.

 

Do you think it is reasonable to say that yes, she did get her S&L certificate “after successful completion of an ESOL course provided by this institution. The course was delivered in a citizenship context by a suitably qualified teacher and used materials derived from The Citizenship for ESOL Learners pack produced for the Home Office by NIACE and LLU+” or not?

 

Barb.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Spence
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