Category Archives: Education

Redland Green as expensive as Clifton College shocker!!!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Evening Cancer yesterday reported Redland estate agents’ claims that house prices in the catchment area of Redland Green School have risen by up to 15%. This means a house in the catchment area once costing £500,000 would now cost … Continue reading →

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The masterplanners

Posted on September 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to Education boss, Heather Tomlinson, and her idiot boss, Pigfucker Gurney, the city is now spending around £2m a year on the strategic management of its schools and education. The result? Utter confusion. The latest announcement from The Cancer … Continue reading →

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Socialism: Bristol Labour style

Posted on September 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

John Bees, Labour’s executive member for Central Services, who basically deals with the council’s finances, is supposed to have a background in trade unionism at Avonmouth docks. You’d never know judging by his comments on the £6m – over 20% … Continue reading →

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Educashion, educashion, educashion

Posted on September 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Well over £1m a year spent on management plus another £1m or more spent on various management consultants and between them, the rest of Bristol’s Education Department and the multi-million pound corporate PR team they can’t even spell and punctuate … Continue reading →

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Mooney and the Bristol education loonies

Posted on September 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Meet Peter Mooney. Along with the majority of people in Bristol, including most of our elected councillors, you probably have no idea who the hell Peter Mooney is. But you deserve to know because Mooney has cost you an awful … Continue reading →

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Education: let's meet the team!

Posted on September 4, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Front Row (left to right): Pauline Marson, Programme Director, Integrated Youth Offer ( joint appointment with Connexions); Peter Mooney, Programme Director, Performance Improvement (Interim); Heather Tomlinson, Director; Kate Campion, Programme Director, Transforming Learning (formerly Telford and Wrekin). Back Row (left … Continue reading →

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How government works: lose money, exceed targets

Posted on September 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Remember those heady days, just a couple of years ago, when everyone wanted their name on the latest glowing press release about the exciting new Redland Green School development? Here’s a bit of one from just one year ago with … Continue reading →

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Media Guardian joy

Posted on August 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The city council’s new strategic communications post for the education department is being advertised exclusively in the Media Guardian. Doubtless this is to attract some media creative from London looking to make a stress free £33k a year and improve … Continue reading →

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"We" wee

Posted on August 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

What a surprise. An increase in the number of kids in the city getting five good grades at GCSE from 43% to 47% finds education boss Heather Tomlinson miraculously back from her holiday and talking to The Evening Cancer: “We … Continue reading →

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Instant History! (Just add radicals)

Posted on August 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The 1831 Bristol riot from Brandon Hill These skateboarders learn fast. Yesterday some of them attended Bristol Radical History Group’s 175th anniversary celebration of the Great Reform Dinner ruck of 1832 on Brandon Hill. Today they’re proclaiming from the pages … Continue reading →

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