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Parliament: Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill, Clause 237
This post is about amendment 78 of clause 237 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill 2008-09. It concerns the acoustic quality in schools. In other words, school buildings are failing to comply and as a result an amendment...
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Posted by alison on March 31, 2009 7:51 PM
Parliament: Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill, Clause 210
This debate concerns an amendment to Clause 210 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill 2008-09, around the requirement to for school inspectors to have "training and expertise in special educational needs [SEN]". The debate below happened at the...
Posted by alison on March 31, 2009 7:09 PM
Monkhouse Deaf Support Centre Closes
GOD was quoted in The News Guardian last week, around the closure of Monkhouse Deaf Support Centre, Tyneside. The decline is down to: More and more parents of deaf children are choosing normal schools causing a drop in the number...
Posted by alison on August 18, 2008 3:32 PM
Poor little Deaf children
==== This is why deaf organisations have a lot to answer for... ==== The scene: My kitchen, this evening. Doorbell rings. C (my partner): There's someone at the door. [goes to front door, opens it] Through the glass door, I...
Posted by j on April 28, 2008 7:50 PM
Mixed bag
As the title suggests, this blog post is a bit of a mixed bag, mostly because I haven’t blogged here for a while and things tend to pile up. So, here we go… Firstly, what is this about captioned radio...
Posted by j on January 15, 2008 8:00 PM
Cochlear set to grow 20% in 5 years
Cochlear's marketing tactics, and aggressive business strategy has hit the news again. Cochlear's CEO, Chris Roberts says: ... the company has 70 per cent global market share and the current Cochlear implants only cover 10 per cent of the available...
Posted by alison on March 9, 2007 7:20 PM
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