Education News (29/11/09)
National Summer Schools
The National Summer Schools will take place at The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. The dates are:-
Monday 16th to Thursday 19th August
and
Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th August
The cost is £305.00 per person for full board, or £116.00 per person for non-residential day delegates including lunches, excluding dinners.
Copies of the paperwork and more details can be downloaded from the U3A website (www.u3a.org.uk)
or be obtained by contacting the National Office on 020 8466 6139.
The themes of the first School are -
Architecture - the Evoluton of the English House Tutor: Wilson Briscoe
Drama - Experiments in Theatre Tutor: Rosamund Hall
France - La Belle France Tutor: Joyce Gibson
History - Glimpses of 19th Century London Tutor: Peter Gamby
Mah Jong for Beginners Tutor: Susan Fifer
Mahler - The Bridge to the 20th Century Tutor: Don Moore
Philosophy - Justification of the State: And Introduction to Political Philosophy Tutor: Ed Link
Poetry - Off the Beaten Track: Poets with Cotswolds Connections Tutor: Mary Jackson
Psychology - Understanding Human Behaviour Tutor: Anne Dale
Science and Technology - Lasers, Secret Messaging and The Science of Photography Tutors: Peter Rockwell, Susan Slater and John Marriage
Singing - For Pleasure Tutor: Ursula Steiger
The Themes for the second School are:
Art History - 'Look upon this picture and on this' Tutor: Ralph Blumenau
Cinema History - A Brief History of Film Since the Second World War Tutor: Alan Coulson
Computing Workshop Tutor: Chris Powell
Geology - the history of building stones Tutor: Isabel Markham
Latin American Spanish - language and culture Tutor: Sylvia Sussmann
Literature -Three Untypical Novels Tutor: Michael Goldman
Music Appreciation - Staging the Ring Tutor: John Busbridge
Philosophy - Thoughts about visual art Tutor: Meg Shaw
Poetry - Three Priest-Poets Tutor: Beth Butler
At the moment the U3A News and Sources are available by request on CD or to listen to via the U3A website which might be of interest to partially sighted members. However, take-up is currently so low that the decision whether to continue with this service will be reviewed after January. So if any member is interested in this service continuing, now is the time to use it.
Start-up Leaflets
There are two new leaflets, written by our national network co-ordinators:-
Drama/Theatre by David Moarton
Living History by Barbara Bond
Other recent and/or popular leaflets include Canals and Inland Waterways, Local History, Astronomy, Family History, Geology, Languages and Storytelling. These can be downloaded from the U3A website (www.u3a.org.uk) or requested as hard copies from the U3A, The Old Municipal Buildings, 19 East Street, Bromley, BR1 1QE.