In September last year Jo Good visited us at City Lit to talk about our Centenary celebrations. Jo met with Principal Mark Malcomson and former City Lit student now turned City Lit tutor and artist Mario Lautier Vella in our brand new Gallery. You can listen to this interview here.
Yesterday Mark Malcomson was invited back, this time to chat about our online courses and what we are doing to help our City Lit community during the lockdown. Mark complimented all the brilliant City Lit tutors and staff for making such a great effort in changing hundreds of face-to-face classes to online courses in a very short space of time. He also mentioned City Lit’s first online Perspectives lecture with City Lit Fellow Sir Vince Cable about the Economy after Coronavirus. This lecture was broadcasted on Zoom on Wednesday 6 May and is now available on our YouTube channel. Mark also spoke about accessibility and how City Lit is now able to reach more people by offering courses online. But he also mentioned the challenges our Deaf community and students with learning disabilities are currently facing because of the lockdown and how City Lit continues to support our students as well as tutors and staff. We recently wrote a blog post about this, which you can read here.
There were also some lovely comments about the College from Londoners who emailed the show after the interview:
"Jo, your interview with Mark from City Lit brought back memories from when I studied Dutch there for three years in the nineties. I lived in Leytonstone at the time and I worked in Farringdon. I remember going there after work having a hot vegetarian snack in their cafeteria and then going to the class. I remember correctly the Dutch lesson was on a Wednesday evening and I think it still is now." Paul from the Hague, in the Netherlands.
