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20th June
Lessons in construction and the relevant English required are helping the unemployed return to work.
Knowing the term ‘dovetail joint’ may be the passport to a career in construction for Said Madarbukus. Despite being a builder for 25 years in Mauritius, 50-year-old Madarbukus’s level of English has made it hard for him to find work since he came to Britain four years ago. Now a north London local authority’s pilot scheme, which ‘embeds’ conversational and vocational English into a construction course, may be his best hope.
Read this story on the Education Guardian website.
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