June Eaton, who organised the anti-sponsored academy petition to Education Secretary Michael Gove MP and a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, reports that yesterday (8th March) Calder High School sent parents a letter. The good news being, said June, that
“there is no longer a requirement that the school becomes a sponsored academy.“
Protect our NHS – online articles we like:
The Health Hurricane-A Year of Destruction in the NHS
All from the excellent Red Pepper
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Greg Sharzer’s 2012 book No Local: Why Small Scale Alternatives Won’t Change The World, may not be what advocates of re/localization want to hear. As the Danish proverb says, “To tell the truth is dangerous. To hear it is boring.”
Despite the best efforts of The League of Gentlemen, it’s an article of faith for many green groups (and the ConDem government, using the rubric of localism) that decentralised, small-scale organisations, businesses and networks will solve our environmental, economic and social problems. For example, Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful
and the Transition Network’s REconomy Project. Greg Sharzer questions this belief.
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