Is written in a foreign language, legalese, and is deliberately vague, they all are so this fact is not unique to Furness Academy Limited and doesn't actually mention any sort of financial detail at all. Odd don't you think for a "Funding Agreement"?
Comes this story which very succinctly shows what is happening in our state schools even though the post features an American college...
What I think has actually happened is this and if anyone knows any different then please feel free to enlighten me.
Thanks to a commenter I was able to capture for posterity some very lax Academy propaganda Evening Mail attention to detail!
Barrow needed an Academy?
Moira Swann
Enid Fraser
Anne Attwood
Dave Kelly
Jim Buchanan
Anne Burns
Stewart Young
and many, many other people who contributed to the lies contained within the "expression of interest" document dissected on this very site (use the search box to see for yourselves)
It's pouring down again. It's dark and miserable again. Anyone would think this is a normal Barrovian winters day expect it's only the 5th of December.
Anyway to lighten the gloom a bit I've found these pictures on the Interweb thingy and...
It never ceases to amaze me how badly run and how corrupt our government really is. What really sticks in the craw though is how profligate it is with taxpayers money when it comes to one of it's sacred cows, Academies.
I should point out that Furness Academy Limited is not a commercially sponsored Academy nor I am glad to say despite the involvement of way too many religious evangelicals in it's creation is it in any way a religious Academy unlike the ULT and Oasis sponsored Academies.
As there appears to be an 'Academy Watch' on Academy Watch trying to 'sniff out' Academy staff who may be commenting on Academy Watch may I make it CRYSTAL clear to all I have NO idea who is actually posting comments.
I assume that the Academy is trying to bring down the wall of silence to cover every aspect of the school instead of smashing the wall to pieces and engaging with the parents, pupils and staff who read this blog.
A sad but after my recent experience of a short and ultimately pointless e-mail exchange with one of the sponsors an entirely predictable one. I asked the sponsor to contribute to this site and lo and behold... I never got a reply.
The sponsors desk and the principals desk must be piled high with requests for information, and their inboxes must be filled to overflowing because none of them ever answer anything.
Anyway onto the Guardian's expose on the problems the Government has with getting cash from its religious and commercial Academy sponsors...
If anyone can through any light on the success of this project I would be very grateful. On the face of it it appears to be a good idea. Giving kids a taste of what University life might be like will either 'kill or cure them'.
However I have never seen numbers to show how many who attend the scheme are 'cured' in other words go onto University and it would be interesting to find out if the scheme is successful.
Mason Minnitt was a headteacher at Settlebeck
High School in Sebergh before joining the Barrow Community Action zone
which then morphed into the BECP.
Settlebeck has around 200 pupils aged 11-16. So it's different
in every way to the much larger Barrovian and Furness secondary schools.
He held this post for 6 years after he was promoted from deputy head at Impington Village college in 1994.
In 2000 he became the director of the Barrow Community Action Zone.
This local quango was created in 2000 with a five year limited lifespan.
It was closed on time in 2005 when Mason became Director of a new local
quango Barrow Excellence Custer Partnership where he still is today.