I have just returned from Macedonia and I am in the process of producing a blog or two about my trip but in the meantime just one or two thoughts on my old Alma Mater and the diocese that runs the establishment. In my inbox as I returned was an […]
Tag: Daniel Kearney
Friends Of St Bede’s College In Manchester (FOBCIM)
Let me introduce you to a new group, a pressure group if you like, who have resolved not to pressure anybody as long as things are going along the right road. We are Friends of St Bede’s College in Manchester (FOBCIM) or FOBs for short I set out in 2011 […]
Comings And Goings At St Bede’s
With all the comings and goings at St Bede’s College in Manchester lately poor Mrs Sandra Pike dopes not know where she is or what she is. In one part of the St Bede’s website she seems not to have relinquished her tight grip on the school because on the […]
Historic Abuse Is Now At Bede’s
Yesterday after welcoming the new head of St Bede’s and offering him my best wishes in a posting entitled Salve Richard Robson, a prospective parent wrote a comment asking why I am so vindictive about the school when he on inspection found it so warm and wonderful. He asked me […]
Salve Richard Robson
On Thursday last, 19th June 2014, St Bede’s College in Manchester unofficially announced the appointment of their new head teacher, Mr Richard Robson who is the Deputy Head of St Joseph’s College in Reading. Mr Robson was appointed to that post in 2011 after a teaching job in Basingstoke. I understand […]
Comings And Goings At St Bede’s College In Manchester
Well it certainly looks as though some of the i’s have been dotted and some of the t’s crossed at St Bede’s College in Manchester, where skullduggery has been the order of the day for the last five months at this once famous school. Ever since the Independent Schools Inspectorate […]
Egos Obliterated At St Bede’s College In Manchester
Well there it is in black and white the latest drip from the stalactite of chaos that is St Bede’s College in Manchester. With the expected but yet still surprising departure of Monsignor Michael Quinlan, erstwhile chair of governors of St Bede’s College, minds will begin to ponder and try […]
Danny Kearney’s Attempt To Right A Wrong
The article below was brought to my attention by St Bede’s veteran, Michael Lawlor, now a resident of the state of Ontario in Canada, but part of the 1947 intake at Bede’s making him one of my oldest correspondents. The article appeared in this week’s Tablet newspaper and shows Kearney […]
BBC On St Bedes Last Night
Well it has all been happening rather fast on the Bedian front since I wrote my last posting on 17th January 2014 entitled Even More On St Bede’s College In Manchester. That same day the Senior Deputy Headteacher as she now calls herself, the honourable and elegant, Sandra Pike, wrote […]
St Bede’s Opened Up
http://isiservice.devprocess.com/DownloadReport.aspx?t=c&r=GRT6928_20131112.pdf&s=6928 Well it has been made public and the above link will take you there. It is a damning indictment of the leadership of the School and in the areas that you would have thought most attention would have been paid. What surprised me was how much the school had […]