- 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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Should Leicester look after its own teachers?
Should teachers who are made redundant from one school be given help to get a job in another school? Knowing the unfortunate view many people have of teachers, probably most of the public would say no. Why should they receive special treatment, they … Continue reading
Posted in Education analysis
Tagged Fullhurst, Leicester City Council, NUT, Peter Flack, redundancy, Riverside
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Just to put the record straight, Mr Wishart
My story appeared on the front of today’s Leicester Mercury about 40 job losses at Riverside Business and Enterprise College, in Rowley Fields, Leicester. The story was headlined “Doomed College May Axe 40 Staff”. The school is due to close in … Continue reading
Posted in Education analysis, Read all about it
Tagged doomed, Leicester Mercury, Riverside, Teresa Green
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That’s all folks
In the end it happened without so much as a whimper. Leicester’s Riverside College, formerly known as Rowley Fields Secondary School, was consigned to history. The final decision, when in came, in the Town Hall this afternoon, passed by in … Continue reading
Posted in Education analysis
Tagged Leicester City Council, Leicester Town Hall, Riverside, Rowley Fields
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