What do I need to know? Before a learned starts the course several areas need to be identified to establish whether the learner is suitable for the course or indeed if the course is suitable for the participant. Age, level of experience, progression, financial situation, location, manual dexterity and number of students in class are the main core of questions that need to be addressed. These questions arise due to a number of issues, for …showed first 75 words of 2325 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2325 total…etc. There should also be a personnel officer or two trained and assigned to student welfare. These should be more accessible and in discrete areas of the college. Students of the age I teach find it hard to approach certain people and there is still a stigma attached in going to see a councilor. Perhaps an email councilor or a textable tutor system needs to be introduced to keep the confidentiality and the interest alive?