My Top 10 Blog Posts of 2011
Here are my top 10 blog posts of 2011 by page views: 1. Academy Status the question that won't go away - 17 February 2. Andrea Hil...
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Schools Adjudicator Slates SCC's flawed consultation and decision making
Photo Evening Star Suffolk County Council's proposals to discontinue St Louis Catholic Middle School in Bury St Edmunds have been ov...
Smell of politics over Waveney Labour Leader's Twitter Allegations
Waveney District Council's Labour Leader Julian Swainson is someone I have followed for a while on Twitter. Not only are his Tweets freq...
Call for Pembroke not to stand as Chairman of Suffolk CC
Cllr Jeremy Pembroke As well as libraries the meeting of Suffolk County Council today will appoint Deborah Cadman as its new CEO or ...
Library Decision expected to be rubber stamped by Suffolk County Council
Tomorrow libraries are back on the agenda again at Suffolk County Council when the full county council debate the Cabinet proposals on the...
Breckland Free School to be run for profit by Swedish company
Matthew Hancock MP with the SABRES Mascot SABRES education trust (which stands for Save Breckland School) announced yesterday that ...
Ixworth Free School to open a year early?
Last week a small meeting took place in Barningham where some significant revelations were made about the plans for Ixworth Free School. A...
Suffolk County Council failed to scrutinise Andrea Hill's expensive US Trips paid for by BT
Andrea Hill former Suffolk CEO Time was when this blog mentioned Andrea Hill (former CEO of Suffolk County Council) in virtually every p...
Suffolk CC "forgets" to invite anyone to Stradbroke Budget Consultation Meeting
Last night 12 people turned up to Suffolk County Council's budget consultation meeting in Stradbroke. It was amazing it was that many pe...
Who is going to run the Ixworth (and Stanton) Free School?
This week I have detailed considerable political interference in the Thurston consultation culminating in the "quid pro quo" i...
Beyton site described as "shabby, expensive, second best!"
I am not sure if Cllr Joanna Spicer took fellow free school advocate Toby Young's book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People on her...
Revealed: The done deal on Ixworth Free School and Thurston Partnership
Michael Gove MP Currently the Thurston partnership of schools and Suffolk County Council are consulting on their proposals for moving to...
Thurston Partnership Consultation "hijacked by politicians"
Helen Wilson, Principal of Thurston Community College Last week I obtained quite a bit of correspondence from Suffolk County Council und...
Ixworth Free School Principal Designate "not in favour of two tier education"
Glenice Francis, Principal Designate of the Ixworth Free School told a packed meeting of parents at Ixworth Middle school that: “I am not...
Ixworth Free School proposers looking for (public) money
Cllr Joanna Spicer The Ixworth Free school proposers are looking for money. Already they have secured £1000 from local Suffolk County Co...
Book Review: The Courageous State by Richard Murphy
Like many I have increasingly found the policies of all three of our main political parties to a greater or lesser extent unappealing. Fre...
There is nothing "free" about free schools
Sir Bruce Liddington, Academy and Free School Boss with 280K pay package Michael Gove appears to have been reading George Orwell's 1...
Suffolk County Council where democracy went to die
Suffolk County Council's Cabinet On Tuesday at 11am in Endeavour House Ipswich the cabinet of Suffolk County Council met to quite ev...
Calls for Suffolk Cabinet to postpone library decision
Cllr Guy McGregor Library supporters from North Suffolk have written to Cabinet member and local councillor Guy McGregor urging him to p...
Waveney in the balance as Andrew Draper finally resigns
Former Cllr Andrew Draper Disgraced Worlingham councillor Andrew Draper finally resigned today following his conviction in August for dr...
Free School Madness continues in Suffolk
Jeremy Rowe, Head of Sir John Leman High Suffolk has across the board an excess of school places. It is a mainly rural county where smal...
Two Tier for Stowmarket after all as Academy bids shelved
Graham Newman, Suffolk Education Portfolio Holder The DfE have shelved academy bids by three Stowmarket Middle Schools at the eleventh h...
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