How annoying. One of the exchanged bar stools had the gas thingy missing. Him Indoors now needs to go back again to Homebase. The single one is in place now and looks fine, reasonably comfortable too.
Did the last IELTS mock today and its the exam for real tomorrow. They all did quite well in the listening - maybe they do listen to me sometimes! It's fingers crossed for tomorrow but the results won't be out for 2 weeks. They already have 5.5 but need a minimum of 6 for university and 7 for a 'good' one, so it'll be interesting to see how much they've progressed.
Another report came out today re the government's proposal to limit student visas which focused only on universities and didn't include language schools, which would also be hit badly. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12496610 Anyone wanting to go to university here in the future will need to already be at university level English and won't be able to come here at a lower level than that to learn our language. Apparently foreign students are worth £5 bn a year to our economy and only about 30% are already at university level. The idea is that bogus students who just want to become illegal immigrants will be prevented from entering and going to fake schools. However, rather than closing down the fakes by insisting that all language schools have British Council status (which all the good ones do and are subject to a 4 days inspection every 3-4 years) the proposal is that all schools will close, including universities' foundation courses. I may write to my MP again about this but after the last bout of communication with him, I doubt there'd be much point
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