Tag Archives: education
A level results…
I don’t have any pictures of attractive young girls celebrating their results. Which partly explains why The Daily Telegraph stubbornly remains better read than this blog. But congratulations to all those celebrating today, and commiserations to those who are not. I’ll hold my own counsel on whether exams are getting easier. But today has made [...]
Education in Wandsworth
I’m probably a creep, but I rather like the videos that have been created for the Wandsworth Conservative council campaign. The latest to be featured is on education. Wandsworth has a lot to be proud of, especially when one considers the challenges faced by inner city schools, but there’s even more to be proud of [...]
Balls to education
Yesterday, I commented that the ‘free schools’ idea had cross party support. I was wrong and shouldn’t have said that. The Conservatives, locally and nationally support the concept of free schools. Indeed, there have been a number of meetings between the local and national Conservative frontbenchers and the local campaign to set up a school [...]
The end of the Elsley School building?
Elsley School’s move to the Nightingale site looks like being made permanent. The site has been empty for some time now, and on occasion been a cause for concern and problem for neighbouring residents. To be fair I’m not that surprised. I was chairman of governors at the school immediately before it ‘federated’ with Nightingale, [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 16 October
My usual end of week post of odds and ends.
John Burns School named as one of the best
I’m a little late in picking up on this, but John Burns School, situated in the north-eastern corner of the ward, has been named as one of the best in the country by Ofsted. Ofsted included the school in its report ‘Twenty Outstanding Primary Schools’ which “showcases 20 primary schools in very challenging circumstances that [...]
A level results
Unlike most newspaper editors I don’t have a photo of attractive young A level students receiving their results but Wandsworth’s schools managed some great results this year. The provisional results show an overall A-E pass rate of 97.3% and overall A-C passes of 74.7%. A superb result for an inner London authority. Some schools showed [...]
How the government failed South Thames College
Last month brought the news that the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) were freezing funding for building projects in colleges across the country. South Thames College was just one of the colleges affected, being in the middle of a two phase rebuilding of their Wandsworth site. Other colleges were even unluckier, having demolished their buildings [...]
Primary school admissions
Offers of places in the borough’s primary schools last week and while many parents will be pleased with the schools their child has been offered many will have been disappointed. About a third of parents did not get their child into their first choice of school, and while there will still be some change (people [...]
South Thames College loses LSC funding
South Thames College has become the latest victim of the government’s rudderless interpretation of the ship of state. The college has been undergoing a dramatic makeover recently, with new facilities being built to the rear of their Wandsworth High Street site the next phase was on the listed front of the building. Despite having got [...]
