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Arbroath school review’s Westway proposal: cost, safety, capacity, amenity
As an example for all those in Argyll and the rest of Scotland who are increasingly concerned at the competence and integrity with which local authorities have been conducting ‘school estate reviews’ –...
View ArticleScottish Sun says Angus survey response fraud came from inside Council
(Updated below) Today’s Scottish Sun (10th August 2011) has a splash on the online element of Angus Council’s opinion survey on its planned new primary school on the most dangerous road in Arbroath.For...
View ArticleAngus Coucil school closures: It Wisnae Me – and some new curiosities to deny?
‘It wisnae me.’This must be one of the most commonly used phrases at Angus Council offices right now, every time anything to do with the new ‘Arbroath super school,’ is mentioned:‘It wisnae me who did...
View ArticleFirst person plea to Michael Russell from Muirfield school parent and campaigner
Ewan Smith is a parent who has been at the heart of the campaign to save Muirfield School in Angus. He has been disturbed by the reasons for the Chair of the Scottish Rural Schools Network, Sandy...
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Extraordinary attack on Education Secretary by Angus Councillor
(Updated at foot with additional documentation) Angus Councillor Peter Nield, his council’s representative on the Education Committee at COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) has today (3rd...
View ArticleIs the SNP on a political scam over Muirfield school in Angus?
Let us stress that this is a hypothesis and one which is as disturbing as it gets – but it is the only scenario to fit some extraordinarily curious events.The hypothetical scenarioCabinet Secretary for...
View ArticleOwn goal: Angus Council response to Education Secretary on Muirfield
Angus Council has submitted its response to the December 2011 request from the Scottish Government for specific information on its condition surveys of Muirfield school in Arbroath. Following a...
View ArticleMuirfield Action Group raises new doubts on validity of Angus Council’s...
The Scottish Government, as is now very well known, called-in Angus Council’s proposalto close both Muirfield and Timmergreens primary schools in Arbroath.In respect of this decision, the active and...
View ArticleArbroath schools campaigner standing for Angus council
Ewan Smith has already left his mark on Angus Council – by fingering its collar for dodgy practiceduring his marathon and successful campaign to save Muirfield Primary School in Arbroath from its...
View Article2010 Schools Act: Hillhead School, Scottish Ministers’ Wick Determination and...
Two primary schools in Wick in Caithness – Hillhead and Wick North, were joined in a single closure proposal paper from Highland Council. Both were to close, with both sets of pupils combining in a...
View ArticleMuirfield school safe: Angus press say Arbroath superschool to be scrapped
This is also a story for Argyll, with the links formed by school campaigners through the Scottish Rural Schools Network between these two – and other – local authority areas.The Dundee Courier is...
View ArticleArbroath’s Councillor Ewan Smith now Angus Vice Convener of Education
News of Arbroath’s Muirfield Action Group champion has reached us from Angus.Councillor Ewan Smith has been appointed Vice Convener of Education at Angus Council.He is working with ‘a fantastic...
View ArticleSchools campaigner, Councillor Ewan Smith quits Angus Council SNP group and...
The following is the press statement we have just received from Councillor Ewan Smith, the successful campaigner for Muirfield and Timmergreens schools in Arbroath, who went on to become an elected SNP...
View ArticlePolitical divorce in Angus and revelations in East Dunbartonshire signal...
We are hearing stories of moves afoot to close schools in Argyll and Bute – and we have already published on Education Director, Cleland Sneddon’s, core strategy for defence in 2013.He and his...
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Iain McCallum: the human bridge between Campbeltown and Heroes Challenge UK
Take your pick – the Campbeltown man with the Welsh wife, Sal, he stayed away from the ‘wee toon’ to marry and live with in South Wales; the awesome kilted, Jock-rock rugby supporter [he did say 'I...
View ArticleSchool closures: Russell commits to centrality of educational benefit –...
Educational benefit must remain a key consideration of the school closure decision making process, Education Secretary Michael Russell said.The Scottish Government’s formal response to the Commission...
View ArticleOne month to go and in one day – Scottish Government announces almost £7...
Today, 18th August 2014, the Scottish Government made three separate announcements totalling just under £7 million public funding to a Scotland-wide range of community organisations.And this came with...
View ArticleSalmond pledge at Arbroath: seriously crackpot stuff
Scotland’s First Minister, engine of the campaign for an independent Scotland, gave a startling and revelatory pledge to a public audience in Arbroath yesterday, 19th August, during the cabinet’s day...
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