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...
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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...
Headteacher of Ixworth Middle School to "hand deliver" FOI response
As readers of this Blog will be aware I recently sent Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests to several schools and to Suffolk County C...
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