ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about steadfast, ongoing linkages between institutions: the students and sometimes the teachers change, but the college-school link is solid. It is interesting to observe the students' own reactions. Priority worked with forty of Liverpool's designated EPA schools, and some thirty of them enjoyed college attachments. The children benefit from the variety and intensity of their studies made possible by a student team. Turning to a harder area, that of student benefit, the reactions were rather more varied and, insofar as the questions were direct 'consumer' ones, self-appraisal is probably a useful guide. The students were asked in what way the EPA Option Courses had helped fit them for possible work in EPA schools. The use of law and medical students in neighbourhood advice or health centres is clear enough, at least in concept. The students benefit from a realistic involvement with the problems many of them will come to face, and this they welcome.
