On 22 June 2015 at 17:04, Alex Stinson <sadads@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I saw this article come across my Facebook feed about your project: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Scrapped-Nonsense-30-000-plan-teach-Leicester/story-26728515-detail/story.html

Thats a real shame, if the project is completely tabled. Is there anything we can do to help? What is needed most to keep this as an opportunity? As I said previously, such a project has considerable positive outcomes on a Global scale, and I would hate to see it tabled.

The political context is probably better imagined than explained.

I don't suppose a sum of about 50K USD is so easy to find, nor the chance to test material thoroughly in classrooms with young teenagers.

As Alex knows, I have a project for an educational material platform based on Javascript, and it was an interesting paper exercise to think how it might be turned in this direction. Rather smaller sums would go some way to providing software support, and graphical pizzazz. But it would be rather tasteless to hijack this thread with details, I feel.

Charles