- 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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We should pay for teachers rather than clearing up after these idiots
There’s nothing that raises my stress levels more on the way to work in the morning than walking through Victoria Park and seeing the disgusting state brainless morons have left the place in following some warm weather the day before. … Continue reading
Education for all?
It’s worrying that in the Saffron Lane part of Leicester only four per cent of teenagers end up going to university. In my Leicester Mercury story yesterday, it sounds as though they just don’t feel it’s the sort of thing … Continue reading
Should a journalist have an opinion?
Writing a blog can bring its problems. As a reporter writing a normal newspaper article you get used to covering all sides of a story; in its simplest form, what one person says and how the other person responds. Despite … Continue reading
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