Some more responses to our Brain Gym FOI request. I had three postal letters today - one generic "we're looking into your request" from Renfrewshire, and two generic letters from Glasgow City Council. One of the Glasgow letters is from the Education department, and the other is from the Environmental Protection Services!! I think the FOI officer at Glasgow has watched too many Horror B-movies!
East Ayrshire is our second council to come back with figures. They have spent £1500 on two courses in 2004 for 30 people total. They also spent £300 for the venue and catering costs for the events. This works out at £60 per person, not as much as I was worried about but still a substantial figure for bad science.
It might be interesting, if you can, to add up the time spent on these courses. Given that CPD time is in short supply, anything like this has a high opportunity cost (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost), which should be part of your picture.
Posted by: David Gilmour | February 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM
oops that last ) shouldn't be part of the link!
Posted by: David Gilmour | February 10, 2007 at 12:02 AM