IN FOCUS: Lambeth College, a ‘Catholic’ free school, and a whole lot of fuss

Part of the Brixton Hill campus of Lambeth College is to be redeveloped as a catholic free school
Part of the Brixton Hill campus of Lambeth College is to be redeveloped as a catholic free school

 

 

By Katie Lathan, reporter

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Lambeth Council don’t seem to have tried very hard to find Vanguard a home. They had a building at 126 Atkins Road previously used for SLAM that would have done nicely – the autism school only needs space for 70 to 80. Instead they sold it.

  2. Labour Cllr Rachel Heywood’s son attends £30k a year independent secondary school Sherborne as a boarder. Clearly she did not have faith in Lambeth’s state secondary schools.

    Typical Labour politician – trying to stop hardworking families from getting a decent education for their children in the state sector when she herself has bought out of it.

    This blog should be asking hard questions of ALL those involved, rather than just reporting their soundbites.

    As for Lee Jasper, I refer people to the wikipedia entry in respect of him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jasper

  3. Nick are you referring to Evelyn Grace Academy which is graded good by Ofsted and is on Shakespeare Road ? They also achieved 79% pass rate in Maths.
    Not bad for an under subscribed school with a higher than average of pupils from an ethnic minority, have English as an additional language, higher than national average special needs and disability and higher than national average pupils supported by pupil premium.

  4. What’s this alleged “school next door” to the LC site that the new free school will compete with? Do they mean the one over by Loughborough Junction, which is undersubscribed because Ofsted considers it “not good enough”?

  5. Why no mention of the university technical college that will be sharing the building with Lambeth College and the free school? This will be providing the quality vocational training that will equip kids for decent jobs in health science that pay more than basic wage.I think this college-technical college-secondary school partnership deal could be the right way to go.

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