I SAW your article of January 7 headlined Teaching Cabin must close owing to road safety and appearance, which I read with dismay.

After Jesse Norman’s NMITE university which is rumoured to have cost over a £100 million pounds, also rumoured to have almost single figures in student numbers compared with this school which has more than 30 disadvantaged youngsters, I began to draw parallels.

The alleged £100 million spent in public and private finance could have bought these youngsters the school they required and the resources to run it. 

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They are council-referred pupils.

They have had their planning application turned down on what I can only describe as scant grounds.

I ask, how many pupils began the term at NMITE in September 2021?

How many have been retained up to Christmas?

What is the age/gender breakdown?

What is the cost in running this university?

Why are they having a January intake in 2022?

Then let us compare it to these disadvantaged youngsters, who are no less deserving of their education.

I will ask, what will happen to them now?

Has there been an offer by the council of another building?

Where is the council responsibility to these young adults?

Whilst the university, its board of trustees and the part they play is shrouded in mystery, just like the test and trace, PPE contracts and parties we were not told about, plus a Tory MP on the end of it.

I ask what kind of society are we creating in Herefordshire?

Are the disadvantaged paying the price for the high costs of this university?

Over to you, Jesse Norman.

Amelia Washbourne
Putson

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