Qualifications

The ability to gain relevant qualification is now absolutely crucial in an evermore competitive employment market place.  Currently, some children are doing better at higher levels.  However, one in ten children leave school with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever.  The prospects of these children even getting an interview for a worthwhile job is remote, let alone actually being offered employment.

With the advent of league tables the problems as got substantially worst.  Schools have tended to concentrate their efforts on the most capable students in an effort to improve or maintain their place in the table.  To add to this, funding for support services remain a low priority in most schools.

In 1997 less children than ever before were put forward to take GCE English examinations and of those that took the examination less than ever before passed it.  In English, more than any other subject, the gap is widening and this year a new term came into being used to identify those who have no qualifications 'The educational underclass'.

Gaining qualifications is the initial essential step to obtaining worthwhile employment.  How can our children succeed in life if many are allowed to fall at the very first obstacle?  With no qualifications our children are condemned to a life of lost opportunity.

Our new centres will enable many more children to obtain the type of qualifications they need to build on and to use to go on to bigger and better things.