School closures: Keir Bloomer –£1,000 a day is an expensive jammed torpedo
Would you pay £1,000 a day for human weaponry without integrity who’ll happily bury difficult evidence in return for his hire? And become an evidential torpedo stuck in the tube and threatening to take...
View ArticleCouncillor Robb carries the fight for Parklands – an inexplicable inclusion...
(Updated below on 15th December) If ever there were a case for ring-fencing in Argyll in the current financial climate, there could be none more obvious than the case of Parklands School in...
View ArticleCouncil welcomes positive HMIE report on school it planned to close
Included in Argyll and Bute Council’s original list of 26 rural primary schools proposed for closure, was the one on the Isle of Luing.What saved Luing from closure was not the educational benefit it...
View ArticleExperienced teachers face job drought in Argyll and Bute
We understand that teachers in Argyll and Bute have been informed that any jobs to be advertised – presumably in connection with staffing resulting from planned school closures and amalgamations – will...
View ArticleHIMIE report on Crianlarich school provides timely food for thought on school...
Across the border from Argyll, in Stirling, an HMIE report on a school in Crianlarich with a roll of 26, shows that schools of this size are delivering the Curriculum for Excellence successfully and in...
View ArticleSchool closures: council’s latest proposal makes Rothesay primary the worst...
Analysis of the detail of Argyll and Bute Council’s latest proposal to close North Bute School and transfer its pupils to Rothesay Primary shows a picture beyond belief.Were the council to succeed in...
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Council admits Longmuir right on post-amalgamation staffing for Rothesay Primary
What a leaky boat are the closure proposals Argyll and Bute Council seem determined to set sail in against the tide of Education Secretary, Michael Russell’s, exceedingly generous comfort blanket of an...
View ArticleThe Arbroath Schools Review: the educational benefit of a primary...
Parents had real concerns that a 500-pupil ‘superschool’ was not educationally beneficial, that:http://forargyll.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=40642&action=edit&message=6their children would...
View ArticleThe use of external bodies as buffer-zones
In his submission Mr Sneddon suggests, variously, that first Education Scotland (the Education Secretary;’s department) and then HMIE might take lover the adjudication of educational benefit...
View ArticleConsultation on school closures now running: McGrigor urges constituents to...
The Scottish Government recently published a consultation paper setting out its proposals for amendments to the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010. This relates to recommendations made by the...
View ArticleRural school closures and the COSLA challenge to the Education Secretary
On Monday this week, 18th November, the Scottish Government announced planned changes to the 2010 Schools [Consultation] [Scotland] Act – which governs the process around local authority plans to close...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council seriously misleads Holyrood Education Committee
And they’ve done it in writing.On 3rd December 2013, Argyll and Bute Council made a written submission of evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee, which is considering...
View ArticleSRSN Chair raises issue of Argyll evidence with Holyrood Education Committee
Chair of the respected Scottish Rural Schools Network [SRSN], Sandy Longmuir, has written to the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee, raising the complex deceptions in the evidence given in...
View ArticleKey battle for rural schools is on
Tuesday 21st January’s session of the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee was fascinating as much for what was below the surface as for what was said.The event was the committee stage of the...
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