Show of courage over Bilston
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Show of courage over Bilston
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As further information emerges, it might even be discovered that the funding council played a distinctive part in the destruction of the college over the years.
Bilston was a radical and effective provider of open-access, equal opportunity, community education policies - the inclusive policies the Government says it wants. It was the forces of conservatism and elitism that destroyed it.
The only disappointment I found wth the article was that there was no mention made of the role played, or perhaps not played, by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment. He did not acknowledge nor adjudicate an appeal by the college governors against the behaviour of the FEFC.
Thus, he allowed the council to be judge and jury in its own case and permitted arrogance and high-handedness to succeed.
Your courage in publishing those articles will, perhaps, open the way for a fair and independent inquiry into the Bilston affair and an analysis of what creating effective “inclusivity” actually entails in further education.
David J Kyte
The Friends of Bilston
Community College
Flat 27, 1 Park Hill
Moseley, Birmingham
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