Idea teaches nothing new (From Western Telegraph)

Idea teaches nothing new

DEAR EDITOR - I read with interest in last week's Western Telegraph that the Pembrokeshire Cabinet met recently to consider a proposal from ELWA to introduce tertiary education in the Haverfordwest area.

A similar proposal was put before the pre-1974 Pembrokeshire education committee at a meeting held in December 1972. The report and minutes of that meeting are available in the Pembrokeshire Records Office and show that a proposal to establish a mid-Pembrokeshire sixth form college at Johnston to serve two 11-16 Haverfordwest schools and two Milford schools (one on the site of the present Milford Comprehensive school and one in Hakin) was defeated by the narrowest of margins. Now 34 years later, the possibility of bringing together all post-16 plus education suggests, that in education at least, there is nothing new under the sun, though it may be presented in a different guise.

COLIN EVANS 17 Seabank The Esplanade Penarth Vale of Glamorgan