IN RESPONSE to the increasing bureaucratic spin and stealth tactics from the Government funded Learning and Skills Council I am seeking support from the local community to keep further education provision in Morley.
The powers that be must realise that the community will not just sit back quietly and allow such a valuable asset as the Joseph Priestley College, which has given excellent service in the greater Morley area for well over 50 years, to be consigned to
the history books and probably only mentioned in connection to the future "super college" which is being forced on us.
In my opinion Joseph Priestley College is meeting the same fate as the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius exploded and destroyed entire communities, except here in Morley the college is being choked by bureaucratic fumes and dust.
The college is running a promotional campaign with the slogan: Joseph Priestley College January 2008 Sale.
In my opinion it would bring the plight of the college to the attention of the greater Morley Community if their slogan read: The Joseph Priestley 2008 Closing Down Sale - absolutely give-away prices. All courses must be cleared before the end of the summer term, irrespective of cost, inconvenience and personal sentiment.
By order of the Government funded Learning and Skills Council, ironically, the same Government who indoctrinated the nation with their slogan, education, education, education.
CHARLES A SLINGSBY
Rein Road
MORLEY
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