Education, education, education, nice soundbite but the rat's school days weren't exactly the best. Let's put it down to a gnawing feeling I didn't fit in. People 1st, the sector skills council for hospitality and tourism, looks like it's having a turblent time in class as well.
At last week's PACE conference in Coventry word reaches my furry ears it received a very public dressing down infront of its peers.
Nigel Flood, lead inspector at the Adult Learning Inspectorate, a part of OFSTED that looks at the job catering colleges are actually doing, took time out from his talk to give People 1st the classroom equivalent of "must try harder".
Flood said: "I had a discussion with colleagues last year and we commented that People 1st had made a slow start, not achieving a lot in its first year. Now what it's doing, such as some very solid skills research, is proving really quite useful."
"They've even started communicating with people better and talking with us, after years of nothing much," said Flood. Ouch. See me after class.
Apparently People 1st also had a blazing row with the Learning and Skills Council about a year back, which to my mind isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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