W.E.A. WAR CLASSES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 34, 19 November 1943, Page 3

W.E.A. WAR CLASSES.

10,000 CIVIL DEFENCE WORKERS

TEACHING IN CITIZENSHIP. LONDON. More than 10,000 full-time and parttime Civil Defence workers are to receive a course called “Education for Citizenship.” It is being arranged by the Workers’ Educational Association, a federation of nearly 2000 teaching organisations.

This winter 500 classes are to oe held at the headquarters of Civil Defence‘zones all over the country. Tutors Avill be school teachers, university professors and eminent politicians. Tuition is free to N.F.S. men and to certain other classes of Civil Defence workers. Those who will have to pay will be charged 2s Gd for 12 weekly lessons. Mr Harold Shearman, Educational Officer of the W.E.A., said that the scheme has the approval of the Mints try of Home Security and the Board of Education.

The Civil Defence Comforts Fund makes a grant for the purchase of text hooks, and workers can choose their own syllabus. For part-timers who cannot attend classes or take part in the discussion groups, there will be correspondence courses run by Ruskin, and other colleges. Mr Shearman said that of the 307 classes running last winter, more than 160 wanted to talk about international affairs, 47 post-war reconstruction, 28 Russia, and two the Beveridge Report.