Funding for such classes come as community cultural development . It keeps the jobless off the streets, and is not a bad thing as such. Many people like to write, want to write, and are able to benefit from classes. As well, the scheme funds writers as teachers. But serious writing is hardly a community activity, and with so many classes, ambitions are fostered and hopes raised in the hearts of too many people.
Writing is an solitary art, driven by an urge to create and ultimately to communicate.
This last is normally achieved through publication of the created work. Writers want to write, primarily, but having writ, want to be published. The fact that it will be hard to find a publisher for the impending masterpiece may well have been suggested in the course of the classes, but few of the hopeful will take heed. That is the way it works with hope. For the government, the next logical step would seem to be to provide support for getting the best of the new work published, but this does not happen.