Improve Bournemouth and Poole College
moving towards correcting a failure of culture and management at Bournemouth and Poole College and Centre for Wessex Young Musicians
(Post made at 1638 UK BST time on 13 Oct 2018 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests). Hat tip to well known barrister Matthew Scott, who writes on Twitter under the handle @BarristerBlog (see here for the tweet and here for the related article) "An innocent client who didn't … Continue reading A dishonest solicitor jailed
(Post made at 2242 UK BST time on 11 Oct 2018 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests). I never thought I would need to report a solicitor to the UK regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority or SRA. Today I did so, in line with my duty as a member … Continue reading Today I reported a solicitor to the SRA
(Post made at 1620 UK BST time on 6 Oct 2018 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests). This site now has a proper domain: https://improvebpcollege.com. I'm proud of Bournemouth and have loved living here for just over 20 years now. It is a matter of great concern and shame … Continue reading Bournemouth and Poole deserves a College (that shares its name) with far better management and accountability
(Post made at 1500 UK BST time on 6 Oct 2018 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests). As William Shakespeare says in The Merchant of Venice, the truth eventually comes out.
(Post made at 1413 UK BST time on 6 Oct 2018 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests). From the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)'s website about suspected dishonesty of a solicitor (the bold emphasis is mine): We do not tolerate dishonesty within the profession we regulate. Those we regulate … Continue reading “We do not tolerate dishonesty within the profession we regulate” (SRA)
(Post made at 0935 BST UK time on 27 Sep 2018 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests). I have set up this new WordPress blog today, to replace my previous Blogger one (which was at https://musicmattersandculture.blogspot.com/). I have migrated all posts, comments and tags from the Blogger site to this … Continue reading New Home! Blog moved here, copy of old site header
(Post made at 1903 on 1 Dec 2017 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests). From: Patrick LeeSent: 01 December 2017 18:57To: 'clerk@thecollege.co.uk' Subject: No College Board minutes published since June?Public & non confidentialDear Clerk to the CorporationThe College website states that it endorses the Nolan Committee principles (*) for those … Continue reading No Bournemouth and Poole College Board minutes published for the last 6 months?
(Post made at 1609 BST UK time on 12 Jul 2017 in a personal capacity. Please see here for important background and disclosure of interests).A fire drill took place at the Centre for Wessex Young Musicians (CWYM) on Saturday 24 June 2017. To the best of my knowledge this was the first fire drill at … Continue reading Why was a long overdue CWYM fire drill delayed for over five months, given that 2 fires had taken place recently at the same College site?
(A short update to say that the issues have not been neglected, and things are happening behind the scenes.)
Improve Bournemouth and Poole College 