August 2011
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In praise of Education Maintenance Allowance [EMA]
Formerly, one of the joys of working in Further and Higher Education, as opposed to the school system was that, at least the students you were teaching actually wanted to be there. After all, they had chosen to do your course and were paying fees for the privilege of doing so.
All this changed - at least as far as Further Education [16-18 year olds] is concerned - with the introduction of EMA...