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Thursday, January 31, 2002
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,640758,00.html Distant voices - Are the learndirect centres doing their job properly? John Crace, The Guardian With friends like these, who needs enemies? Earlier this month, John Healey, the adult skills minister, was given a thorough grilling by the education select committee, and some of the toughest questions came from members of his own party. After giving as good as he got during a brutal 15 minutes on the Individual Learning Account fiasco, Healey must have thought he was in for a quieter time. Not so, as Jonathan Shaw, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, duly followed up with a double-barrelled assault on distance learning centres. His general thrust was that we've all been brainwashed into thinking that anything to do with computers and distance learning is such a "good thing" that people seldom bother to ask if the results are worth the effort. What then was the government doing to ensure the quality of learning?...
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