Just been reading an interview with the new director of diversity at the Learning and Skills Council. Um, this is how he describes his role:
I am responsible for ensuring that the final document is both relevant in the context of the LSC’s priorities, and meaningful in the context of equality. This means that it both drives change to improve access to learning and learning outcomes for those groups of people who are disadvantaged in society, and also enables the LSC to achieve its targets.
That’s just for starters. Unfortunately my brain keeps glazing over, but it occurs to me that he might have written his answers in another language and put it through babelfish?
That second sentence suggests to me that learning outcomes for the disadvanteged are not included in the LSC’s targets….hmm.