Previous General Courses

Our General courses are new for 2007-2008, so we haven't got any photographs or feedback comments. Instead, here is some more information about some of our trainers.

John Mannion

John teaches these courses

John was mentioned in this Guardian article, Dawn of the cyber teacher.

He has published the following books:

Chapter on poetry in English for The Caribbean (Longman 1985)
Co-author Cascades Fiction Folder (Collins 1987)
Units in the Collins English Programme Books 1-4 (1987-89)
Article on Retreats New Statesman and Society (December 1989)
Series editor Staccato Scripts (Stanley Thornes 1992)
Editor and author Practice with Prose (Collins 1994)
Co-author English Solutions Books 1-5 (Longman 1994-97)
Tolkien Teaching Pack (Collins 1997)
Collins School Grammar (1997-1998)
Collins Reference Grammar (November 1998)
The Little Book of Shakespeare (April 1999)
Starting Henry V (Collins 2001)
Very Like a Whale: An Anthology of Science Writing –Ed (Collins 1999)
I Spy: An Anthology of Personal Writing – Ed (Collins 1999)
Framework Focus: Media and the Moving Image (Letts 2003)
GCSE English (GCSE Success Question Answers) (Letts 2003)
Collins GCSE English and Literature: Exam Preparation Student's Book (2003)
Collins GCSE English and Literature: Exam Preparation Teacher’s Folder (2003)
Co-author Impact English Books 1-3 (Collins 2005)
Co-author DVD Piracy resources (Film Education 2006)
The Divided City Class Pack (OUP 2007)

John has also held the following consultancies:

Stockport Literacy Development Panel (1989-93)
BBC Educational Programming - English
Cascades Fiction Series (Harper Collins)
English Panel Roehampton Institute of Education
Teachers’ Resources for World Book Day - publishing industry promotion
Work on BBC Bitesize Website
English specialist and advisor for Learn.co.uk
Contribute lessons to back up the resources published in The Guardian Education Online lessons for the Welsh NGfL
Assessor of electronic resources for NGfL
Research officer NATE
Judge for the Royal Television Society’s annual awards in Educational Television
Illimina Digital Consultant for successful BBC Jam bid