Hackney Town Hall Q&A 15/10/10 (ISH &NAT)

As planned the Evolution met up outside hackney town hall, prompt in the morning and ready to commence. The aim of this day was to hopefully get some answers to our questions, as we were very excited to ask the panel.

Stepping into the courtroom was a new experience to us, as it felt as though we were entering the House of Commons. Upon entry, to our right sat the members of the panel. Which included the mayor of hackney, the head of the police department, and also young students from schools and colleges.

We sat down and listened to the discussion which was going on. A young person within the audience, asked a very relevant question which was:

 Aim higher is being stopped next year, what are you going to imply to replace it?
The mayor of hackney replied: the government is aware of this and is implementing funding towards programs, which are aimed to help young people within hackney.

Our concern is as the government are funding these programs, are they going to be
As easily assessable to young people as aim higher was?


From our primary resource, we have gathered that the majority of students within university are worried about the increase of university fees. Ismael felt very passionate about this subject, and had a question to ask the panel.

There have been several talks about the putting the university fees up to £7000 by 2012, what are you views on the current situation? And what do you intend to do to try and make a change.

From the question we asked, there was not a direct answer, and it seemed as though they went around in a circle and didn’t answer our question.

A young person which was on the panel, made a comment. That young people shouldn’t see the £7000 tuition fees as a disadvantage, or a set back. But more of an encouragement to make young people more determined to strive to get to university.

We found that, what he said was not a very considerate, as a lot of young peoples families cannot afford the £7000, which is required to get to university

Leaving the courtroom, we felt as though our question hadn’t been answered properly by mayor of Hackney. He didn’t really answer our question but instead went round in a circle.