Just in case there are any 'revelations' I am recording the Q and A here for posterity...
Continue reading The Webchat.
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He is holding yet another brain numbing webchat with his favourite mouthpiece.
Where are all the state secondary heads webchats?
Submit a question using this form... and then run a book on the chances of it being answered by the now bronzed Academy Principal! (spotted in Tesco recently, with his good lady sporting deep brown tans. The mail will have to get some new pictures done.)
Where are all the state secondary heads webchats?
Submit a question using this form... and then run a book on the chances of it being answered by the now bronzed Academy Principal! (spotted in Tesco recently, with his good lady sporting deep brown tans. The mail will have to get some new pictures done.)As you may have now gathered I have decided to keep this blog going for another 12 months.
I have to say I was wavering until the Academy inexplicably failed to release its GCSE results into the public domain.
I cannot to understand why the schools principal has taken this decision.
I cannot understand why the schools sponsors have allowed him to take this decision.
I cannot understand why the schools governors have allowed him to take this decision.
I cannot understand how the DCSF are not forcing this school to release its figures.
I cannot understand why no staff member has spoke out about this abject failure.
Continue reading Onward & Upward?.
Having now read this document available on the Academy Company website it is clear in my mind that this consultation is simply a PR exercise for a single site Academy.
Have a read for yourself and see what conclusion you come to.
PS
MC2 and Mouchel are nowhere near as good as concocting a biased consultation document as Cumbria County Council and CN Group Research are!
Have a read for yourself and see what conclusion you come to.
PS
MC2 and Mouchel are nowhere near as good as concocting a biased consultation document as Cumbria County Council and CN Group Research are!
Continue reading Consultation My Left Foot.
Another one captured for posterity!
Continue reading Principals Message 19th January 2010.
Delivered online 14th December and captured for posterity
Continue reading Principals Message.
Once again Mike Parr takes Douglas to task. Sadly this is only a short interview and Douglas avoids directly answering any questions. Seems his private talk with John Hutton revolved around 'How to avoid answering a direct question, NuLabour style!'
Continue reading Dougie Rockin De Radio Innit!.
Here we go again back in the Evening Mail's fantasy land of Exclusive Interviews. In case it hadn't noticed, and clearly it hasn't, there are NO OTHER LOCAL PAPERS so every flaming interview it gets is an 'exclusive'.
Continue reading Evening Mail Hutton EXCLUSIVE!.
Well the Evening Mail sent in a key information gatherer to the Furness Academy Company school buildings and she came up with this article. My eldest son has read it through and he said it jars with a lot of the view points of the Year 11's and 10's he has contact with so what do you think?
Continue reading Progress So Far?.
This practice is alive and well in 21st Century Britain and Barrow is one of the 'deprived' areas being aided by a structural Academy, an massive increase in vocational qualifications and a corresponding decrease in academic qualifications.
This saddens me because...
This saddens me because...
Continue reading Social Engineering In Barrow & Furness.