Me again! Following the recent announcement of additional SFA funding to deliver ESOL for JCP clients, we have been offered money which would mean something like a 300 to 400% increase in the size of our ESOL provision for JCP clients. We have already established a very good relationship with our local JCP offices and they happily refer their ESOL clients to us. So we think it is highly unlikelly that the demand is going to increase by such as huge percentage. I'd be interested to hear whether anyone else has had a similar experience. (We're also having a stab at arguing that we should get transitional funding with this, as this would reduce the number of students that we need in order to hit these targets.) Gail ESOL Curriculum Manager Adult Education College Bexley *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]