Education

The Reasonable Adjustment of Swansea Council

14 Mar , 2014  

Following a phone call with Arwyn Thomas, Head of Education at Swansea Council yesterday evening, I can now report that he has agreed to look at extending the deadline for this consultation until two weeks beyond receipt of the information requested in the FOI. The 20 working days of the FOI end on 31st March […]

Education

Swansea Council in a Dither

13 Mar , 2014  

For the last month and a half I’ve been learning some interesting things about Swansea Council, by a rather circuitous route. It all began when my friend talked to me about her concerns about plans to cut the Home Tuition Service, run for kids who are either too sick or too disabled to physically attend […]

Education

Mr Gove’s State-Funded Anthroposophy

27 Apr , 2012  

As Brits prepare to shell out their meagre resources on Steiner free-schools, why isn’t Mr Gove asking the difficult questions? When Steiner/Waldorf schools can inform Human Rights that they need to be allowed to discriminate on the basis of their special character – these three short movies illustrate some hidden dangers of Mr Gove’s State-funded […]