Not sure if she still reads these pages. She used to so here's hoping...
Continue reading A Message To Anne.
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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?.
This article was brought to my attention recently by an 'interested party' and it contains some interesting comments.
I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but plenty of people could SEE what was going to happen back in February of 2009.
I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but plenty of people could SEE what was going to happen back in February of 2009.
Continue reading The Things They Said.
What I think has actually happened is this and if anyone knows any different then please feel free to enlighten me.
Continue reading As I See It... For What Its Worth.
Thanks to commenter Eric I took a tootle over to TES jobs and lo and behold I found...
Continue reading And Then There Was One!.
It now looks like the wheels are coming off all across the Labour Governments education system, if this BBC story is to be trusted.
I am not convinced that the BBC is an impartial news service these days but if it has been cleared to report on this there has to be some truth in it.
I am not convinced that the BBC is an impartial news service these days but if it has been cleared to report on this there has to be some truth in it.
Continue reading Furness College About To Go Into Reverse?.
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.
To save the Labour diploma.
Turns out that maybe, just maybe the Diplomas are not all that Ed Balls and Co have said they are "the qualification of choice."
Universities don't like them.
Business doesn't like them.
Even the kids don't like them.
But none of that opinion was ever going to sway Ed Balls.
Turns out that maybe, just maybe the Diplomas are not all that Ed Balls and Co have said they are "the qualification of choice."
Universities don't like them.
Business doesn't like them.
Even the kids don't like them.
But none of that opinion was ever going to sway Ed Balls.
Continue reading Please Give Generously.
What has become clear from the comments on the MC2 Have Given Up post is that there are a lot of disgruntled people wanting to be heard.
I have also asked for positives and none have been forthcoming. So I have looked slightly further afield to see how another Cumbrian Academy, Richard Rose Central, is doing and straight away you can see a big difference in approach.
I have also asked for positives and none have been forthcoming. So I have looked slightly further afield to see how another Cumbrian Academy, Richard Rose Central, is doing and straight away you can see a big difference in approach.
Continue reading Richard Rose Academy. A Different Approach?.
It's amazing what you can find out on this interweb thingy. There is
all manner of information available even if it's found by some
seemingly obscure routes.
I was reading through the proposed changes to education in the UK contained within the Education Bill announced in the Queens speech. Much of it is hot air and I doubt any of it will actually become law unless the entire population sit on their hands at the next election and Blinky, Banana Boy, El Gordo and co get back in. However what was really annoying is that Ed Balls has accepted Graham Badman's fatally flawed review of home education chapter and verse even though the results of the select committees investigation haven't been published yet!
I was reading through the proposed changes to education in the UK contained within the Education Bill announced in the Queens speech. Much of it is hot air and I doubt any of it will actually become law unless the entire population sit on their hands at the next election and Blinky, Banana Boy, El Gordo and co get back in. However what was really annoying is that Ed Balls has accepted Graham Badman's fatally flawed review of home education chapter and verse even though the results of the select committees investigation haven't been published yet!
Continue reading The Wonder Of The ONS.