'True cost' of savings at John Leggott College in Scunthorpe
HAVING left John Leggott College last July, I can say the true cost of these "savings" at the college are an unsatisfied staff with significant wage cuts for them and a never-ending threat of redundancy.
The teaching staff at Leggott are second-to-none. I could not have left for University of Edinburgh last year without their on-going support and expertise, even their on-going humanity and ability to laugh in the face of burgeoning workloads and expectations (expectations that I thought were often highly unrealistic).
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John Leggott College in Scunthorpe
I think a focus has been placed solely on Ofsted reports rather than the education of the students meaning lessons would be swapped around so the boxes could be ticked, whether that helped the students or not.
There was also a worrying number of these superb teachers that were susceptible to illness and stress due to their work rates.
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What worried me was in September 2011, a number of new members of non-teaching staff were brought in to seemingly help the students.
How were these people employed in the face of growing redundancies?
I'm simply worried an emphasis on Ofsted will ultimately not actually help or improve the college which has to be considered as a true asset to North Lincolnshire let alone Scunthorpe. - Rachael Bowes, Ulceby (currently Edinburgh)
2 Comments
by E_Rosenberg
Saturday, March 16 2013, 10:20PM
“The principal is never there on a Friday!”
by purplethistle
Friday, March 15 2013, 3:43PM
“Finally a bit of truth being published. I think a lot of the students and alumni know exactly how damaging management and OFSTED have been towards the morale of the teaching staff and just how ridiculous it is FORCING tutors out of a place where these very people provide second-to-none education. How can you have a sixth form college without teaching staff, but be employing inexperienced and cheap handy-men to be doing some of the jobs that the teaching staff were doing anyway? These plans to cut yet more teaching staff are an absolute disgrace and everyone knows it; the staff, the students and alumni - and many have complained about this to the college before, but we've been silenced in our efforts thanks to a principle who is unable to take criticism and who lacks an ounce of compassion for anyone who suffers under his tactics to save money. Education isn't a business and the government and the SMT at Leggott should know this. I wouldn't have got into University to study the subject that I love without my tutors; they deserve more respect for their fantastic work.”