- Ian Wishart is a business journalist, currently working in Brussels. He worked on regional newspapers in England and Wales until 2010. Shortlisted for UK regional education journalist of the year 2009. He was education correspondent of the Leicester Mercury between 2006 and 2010. He is now business reporter for European Voice, an Economist Group newspaper. This blog is wholly unconnected with that role and the views here are entirely personal. ________________________________
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UPDATE: An insult to parents
Following my post yesterday evening, this morning I received this statement from Leicester City Council’s press office, on behalf of Leicester College:
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An insult to parents
This morning the announcement came that outside organisations will become partners in trusts running New College, Babington College and Fullhurst College. The PR campaign was co-ordinated so that a journalist from the BBC and I were invited to a briefing … Continue reading
A brush with royalty
Yesterday Ross Willmott, today Princess Anne. Anne is opening the new campus at Leicester College and is then off to Loughborough University. I’ll be the one following her around sheepishly. In today’s world of banks going under, politicians’ reputations nearly … Continue reading
