Posted : 26th November 2011
When Andrea Accison first enrolled on a short course at Fircroft in 2007, no-one could have predicted that just three years later she would be travelling to the House of Lords in London to receive a prestigious national award.
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Posted : 26th November 2011
Carl Manning, 53 from Birmingham, left school at 15 with no qualifications after an unhappy time at secondary school. Carl worked all his life either as a butcher or in the meat industry – he says, “I only ever did manual work. Because of my bad experience at school I thought I was too stupid to do anything else.”
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Posted : 26th November 2011
Around 1990 I became ill, I had a breakdown, I lost my job and everything changed for me at that point. I have suffered with mental illness ever since, I also put on a lot of weight and lost all confidence in myself and communicating with others. I had been told to go on courses over the years, but never did so. I will be honest - I was scared to go back into education.
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