Category: Sheffield
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Sheffield Schools Crisis, Why 2017 Will be Worst Year Ever for School Place Admissions / Politics / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It will soon be crunch time for the parents of Sheffield's children starting secondary school this year as they will find out whether their child has obtained a place at their preferred / catchment area school or not. Or as has been increasingly the case during the past few years are going to be disappointed by the outcome as they contemplate the stressful process of appealing. A crisis due to a number of factors including that which prompted latest years BrExit vote. A Sheffield schools crisis that in large part has been the city councils own making, regardless of the party in power as the council has been determined in a continuation of the crisis that has no end in sight.
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Sheffield Tree Fellings - Labour City Council Outsourcing Local Democracy to Amey / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It may be the start of the new year but t is unlikely to bring a halt to the tree felling rampage currently underway in Sheffield, where apparently by the end of 2017, 6000 big street trees will have been felled out of a population of a about 30,000, big street trees which have been deemed by the councils PFI contractor Amey too costly to maintain and so have to go so as to maximise profit.
In response to the rampage thousands of Sheffielders have been protesting many coalescing across a number of disperate facebook groups in an attempt to both publicise and halt the tree felling's before they claim thousands more of the Sheffield's biggest and best trees. Unfortunately there is little sign that the campaigns and voices of reason have had any effect on the city council which remains determined to allow Amey to fulfill its objectives regardless of the damage being done to Sheffield's streets. The reasons for which are shrouded in secrecy as to why Sheffield city councilors appear deaf, dumb and blind, which implies that the councillors have out sourced the running of Sheffield to a foreign multi-national, the Spanish Ferrovial family owned Amey.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
EIS Sheffield Warns Parents Not to take Photos of their Children on School Sports Days! / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The jobs worth's at the English Institute of Sports (EIS) situated in Sheffield are apparently warning parents not to take photos of their children on school sports days held at the EIS, as illustrated by the letter issued by Greystones Primary School to all parents, that is holding it's Sports Day today.
The EIS has advised us that parents are not allowed to take photographs....
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Silverdale, High Storrs, City Council Determined to Destroy Sheffield's Best State Schools / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
An analysis of Sheffield's school league tables reveals a bleak picture of virtually all of Sheffield's best state schools on a downwards trend trajectory where the only school to buck the trend being Tapton, whilst Sheffield's best ranked state school (Silverdale) also shows a marginal decline. However, further down the league tables the downwards spiral in performance accelerates with King Ecgbert, Bradfield and High Storrs leading the way.
Monday, April 04, 2016
Sheffield Best Secondary Schools League Tables Trend Analysis 2015 / Local / Sheffield
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Whilst most parents / students look at the most recent Sheffield school league table in making their secondary school choices, however these can from time to time prove highly misleading as many of Sheffield's 37 Secondary schools / Academies for whatever reason exhibit volatility in performance from year to year therefore a currently high ranking school may not mean that the same level of performance will continue for subsequent years as it may have been subject to special intervention and circumstances, therefore a much better methodology in the rating of schools is evaluation in terms of trend and deviations against trend.
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Sheffield School Places Crisis Judgment Day for Secondary School Applications 2016 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It's crunch time for the parents of Sheffield's children starting secondary school this year as today they will find out whether their child has obtained a place at their preferred / catchment area school or not. Or as has been increasingly the case during the past few years are disappointed by the outcome as they contemplate appealing. A crisis due to a number of factors that include continuing out of control eastern european migration, year on year cuts in school budgets and rampant school applications fraud all contributing towards a crisis in school places.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Sheffield Risk of Rivers Don and Sheaf Flooding, Great Flood of 2016? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Britain's fifth largest city, Sheffield was hit with a once in a 150 year flood in 2007, but now 8 1/2 years later Sheffield may be about to witness it's next once in a century flood as a consequence of climate change that has seen a conveyor belt of heavy rainfall hitting mostly Northern Britain every few days resulting in a series of floods working their way down Britain's backbone that most recently has impacted major northern cities such as York, Manchester. Leeds and Bradford.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Sheffield Houses Prices 2015, Best Estate Agents As Rated by Buyers and Sellers / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield is Britain's fifth largest city with an estimated current population of 575,000 that occupy's the south west quadrant of the county of South Yorkshire, part of the Yorkshire and Humber region. Sheffield given its central UK position, prominent rail and motorway links is a favourable destination for national and international migrants from nearby towns and further afield given its relatively affordable house prices, especially when compared against the South East. Sheffield has a very active housing market with over 2,500 properties on the market at any one time and with nearby Rotherham another 1,000 that generates more than £2 million in commissions annually shared out between more than 20 local estate agents.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Sheffield, Yorkshire and Humberside House Prices Forecast 2016-2018 / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sheffield is Britain's fifth largest city with an estimated current population of 575,000 that occupy's the south west quadrant of the county of South Yorkshire, part of the Yorkshire and Humber region. Sheffield given its central UK position, prominent rail and motorway links is a favourable destination for national and international migrants from nearby towns and further afield given its relatively affordable house prices, especially when compared against the South East.
Friday, May 08, 2015
Nick Clegg Lib Dem Leader Wins Sheffield Hallam Surviving Lib Dem Bloodbath - Opinion Polls Wrong / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst the Lib Dem blood bath continues to unfold across the UK (at 4.55am) that the BBC forecasts could result with a catastrophic loss of 47 seats to just 10. Instead, the Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg has managed to hold onto his affluent Sheffield Hallam seat on a majority of 2,353 votes despite the exit poll, and opinion polls turning out to be wrong.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Labour Leads in Nick Clegg's Sheffield Hallam Seat, Latest Ashcroft Opinion Poll / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The latest Lord Ashcroft opinion poll for Nick Clegg's Sheffield Hallam constituency shows that Labour has managed to maintain a slender lead over the Lib Dem Leader as Nick Clegg fights a ferocious battle to prevent losing his seat to the Labour candidate Oliver Coppard, which if lost would scupper any hopes for a continuation of the Tory led Coalition as without Nick Clegg the left of centre Lib Dems with veer towards the Labour party even if it would result in messy outcome that involves the Scottish Nationalists.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Sheffield School Places Election Crisis - Affluent Schools Demand Increase in Funding / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The latest saga in Sheffield's school places crisis is the ganging together of Sheffield's affluent area state schools to demand an increase in funding per pupil so as to better match the amount received per pupil funding for Sheffield's less affluent area schools that in a letter Head teachers of the affluent schools typically estimate as £3,477 against as high as £5,000 per pupils for less affluent area schools.
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Ashcroft Poll Forecasts Nick Clegg to Lose Sheffield Hallam, But Tories to Rescue Lib Dems / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Labour party finally came to life in the battle for Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg's Sheffield Hallam Seat, with the start of door step campaigning for local votes and leaflets dropping through letter boxes that list Lib Dem 'broken promises' such as not to raise tuition fees, VAT, and the local issue not to grant Sheffield Forgemasters a £80 million loan. Whilst Labour promises to "cut the deficit every year and get the current budget into surplus". Which is set against Labours track record of an out of control £167 billion annual budget deficit for 2009-10.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Sheffield Hallam Election Battle 2015 - Lib Dems Go to War Whilst Labour Sleeps / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Opinion polls continue to paint a picture of a literal Lib Dem electoral blood bath, which according to several mainstream press analysts could see a loss of as many as 36 MP's to an abysmal tally of 20-24 MP's. For instance the New statements May2015.com is currently forecasting 24 seats for the Lib Dems.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Dobcroft School Expansion on Hold as Labour and Lib-Dems Battle Over Sheffield Hallam Election / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The comings and goings at Dobcroft Infants and Juniors school is in microcosm the crisis in Sheffield school places, where first we had the panic announcement to expand the school by 1/3rd in 2015 and 2016 onwards, which has now been thrown into doubt following city councilors trying to calculate which decision will carry the most votes with the electorate in the crucial Hallam constituency where the Lib-Dem leader, Nick Clegg is literally fighting for his political life to retain his seat.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Sheffield School Places Crisis 2015, Magnitude of Dobcroft Catastrophe Revealed / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
In microcosm Sheffield's Dobcroft Infants school illustrates the crisis in school places taking place right across Britain's cities as a consequence of a soaring birth rate, out of control immigration and school budget spending cuts. Where the most recent development in the unfolding saga is a detailed lengthy letter by the governing body of the school in the wake of the Sheffield city councils election panic decree for a 33% increase in school places for the intake due to be be announced April 2014, just a few weeks before the May general election as I recently covered at length in -
Monday, February 09, 2015
Sheffield School Places Crisis - Labour Council Election Panic Dobcroft Infant 33% Extra Places / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The city of Sheffield illustrates the crisis in school places that is taking place right across Britain where year on year cuts in school budgets have come up against soaring demand for places as a consequence of a soaring birth rate and immigration resulting in parents across the social spectrum desperately attempting to get their child a place at the cities best ranked state schools. And thus is the situation for Sheffield's middle class parents who have been sleep walking towards a personal school places catastrophe this year as assumptions of their child gaining a place at the nearest catchment area school for infants foundation / reception year admission would soon be shattered come the announcement of school place allocations during April 2015.
Friday, January 02, 2015
Sheffield BT Infinity Broadband Speed Review - What to Know Before Signing Up! / ConsumerWatch / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
BT still retains a telecoms monopoly across most of Britain's major cities with competitors such as Virgin Media having only made marginal headway into competing for fibre optic broadband services. This article illustrates what people in cities such as Sheffield can typically expect after signing up to BT Infinity in terms of quality of service and broadband speeds.
Friday, December 05, 2014
Sheffield School Places Admissions Crisis - End of Catchment Areas Labour Election Bribe? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour controlled Sheffield City Council is desperately attempting to address the perfect storm that the city faces as the demand for places at Sheffield's best state schools far exceeds places available that for some schools is resulting in twice the number of applications as there are places (i.e. Dobcroft Infants Sch. places 90, applications 150). The perfect storm is as a consequences of several converging factors of year on year real terms budget cuts at a time of a rising natural birth rate, continuing out of control immigration and its consequences in terms of disruption of social cohesion in areas of the city, desperate parents utilising every trick under the sun to circumvent the catchment area rules such as encouraging over eager psychologists to expand the scope of the Special Educational Needs statements (SEN's) that for some schools has now been expanded to include 1/3rd of all children, and an epidemic in outright fraudulent school applications in terms of use of catchment area addresses.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Sheffield Roma Crisis School Place Application's Fraud Perfect Storm / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield's growing crisis in areas of the city such as Page Hall / Firth Park where literally an influx of several thousand mostly Roma migrants has proceeded to tear at the social fabric of the community that has started to spill over into Sheffield's schools that had already been facing a crisis in school places as a consequence of year on year real terms budget cuts at a time of a rising birth rate that is now resulting in a perfect storm that will likely manifest itself in a record number of fraudulent school place applications over the coming weeks for academic year starting September 2015.