Category Archives: Education

Just to annoy the Evening Cancer

Posted on December 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Kingsdown Conservation Group University Plans – here’s our press release The Evening Post have asked us not to send this to others until after the holidays (because they plan to run a story) – anyone have ideas about where to … Continue reading →

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Building (empty) schools for the future

Posted on December 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s official. A recent Commons answer reveals that empty school places in Bristol have spiraled alarmingly upwards since Bristol’s much touted £270m ‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF) programme has started delivering new schools in the area. In 2001 Bristol … Continue reading →

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New sweatshop plan for the city's poor

Posted on December 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

After twenty years of failed regeneration wonkery attempting to solve inequality in the city through a bizarre combination of obsessive equal opportunity practice and small-scale community action and six years of Kelly and his culture crowd promising action on inequality … Continue reading →

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Education and the LEA: reform or revolution?

Posted on November 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Over on the the ‘Half our pupils are missing’ education thread, there’s a clear divide opening up. It’s between those who would abolish the LEA immediately and hand more autonomy to schools locally and those who believe that there’s nothing … Continue reading →

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Half our pupils are missing

Posted on November 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Can it only be last week that Labour’s deranged multiculturalist guru Peter Hammond announced: he believed school was a place we went for the opportunity to meet other cultures that lived around us. But oh dear. What a shock. How … Continue reading →

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Black schools

Posted on November 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger’s attention was caught by a report posted on Bristol 2007’s Weblog about a recent brief debate on the issue of black only schools for Bristol. Here’s a part of it: Cllr Peter Hammond [a key member of the … Continue reading →

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Educashion today

Posted on November 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

On one of the more obscure outposts of the council’s website you can find details about something called ‘Buggybuddies’, publicly funded keep fit sessions for yummy mummies. If you really feel the need to look it up yourself it can … Continue reading →

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Direktive from ze Heatherbunker

Posted on November 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader directs The Blogger to this term’s edition of Herr Direktor Tomlinson’s glossy newsletter(PDF) for school governors as we “may want to read the series of crap excuses she’s concocted”! The reader continues: No great major spelling mistakes immediately … Continue reading →

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Day 4 of my experiment

Posted on November 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Time for an update on The Blogger’s great e-democracy experiment to get rid of Heather Tomlinson. On Friday The Blogger fired off an email to the council’s e-democracy department requesting some simple information on their confidentiality arrangements with regards to … Continue reading →

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The last days of the Heathersreich

Posted on November 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Sounds like it’s beginning to resemble the fall of Berlin in the Tomlinson Schoolzbunker at the Council House. Our man with the password to the server in Bristol’s Education department says that Herr Direktor Heather Tomlinson is now so paranoid … Continue reading →

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