- 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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Tag Archives: New College
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
Promising news about GCSES
There are some indications that Leicester’s GCSE results could really be something to write home about next summer. After two or three years of steady progress by the schools with the lowest grades (apart from Fullhurst Community College where the … Continue reading
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Tagged Babington, Fullhurst, GCSEs, National Challenge, New College
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Lee Fairclough
A very sad thing happened this week. A teacher in one of Leicester’s secondary schools, Lee Fairclough, died, suddenly at the age of 34, having had no apparent health problems. We reported some of the tributes to him in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Lee Fairclough, New College, Riverside, South Wigston High School
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