Official: Sir Malcolm Grant’s ‘tache was inspired by Frank Zappa
HIGHER education’s favourite smoothie was given a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday’s Honours last week. So arise Sir Malcolm, Sir Malcolm Grant, the [...]
UCL Academy
The Mennear-Bryant bean bag room
WHEN the UCL Academy officially opened last week, it was interesting to see which local politicians were there in the front rows of the celebratory assembly… and which [...]
UCL Academy delays: ‘We’ll all look back and laugh’
The new UCL Academy school’s headteacher principal Geraldine Davies suggested recently that her patience was wearing thin when fresh delays to the opening of the new [...]
The suits at the UCL Academy
I WENT to a school where was no school uniform so the Jets and Sharks in the playground were divided on the grounds of who had Nike Air Max trainers and the saps who wore [...]
The school that Haringey built
I walked past this yesterday. Shot up with impressive speed, it’s the new Heartlands High School running alongside the railway tracks close to Alexandra Palace in [...]
I click, Gove jumps
TEE-HEE. Was it only this morning that I wrote it was make your mind up time for Michael Gove and his umming and ahhing over whether to fund the UCL Academy. This afternoon [...]
Make your mind up time
WHATEVER you think of outside sponsorship of schools and the academy system, you had to feel a little sorry last night for the councillors on Camden Council’s planning [...]
Sylvia and the scaremongers
SYLVIA Jones, the headteacher who walked away from the UCL Academy project, is quoted in a newspaper! The New Journal tried three times to call her at her school when [...]
Heads up
UNIVERSITY College London wait on tenterhooks to find out whether Michael Gove will fund its new academy school in Swiss Cottage or not. Still, it might want to edit up its [...]
Under review
SO, now that we know that the government has spiked a raft of Building Schools for the Future programmes in Camden, we are left with questions, questions.. Here’s a [...]