Welcome to the

Friends of Bilston Community College

Website

Some recent documents produced by the Friends:

Friends Bulletins - Latest Bulletin No. 12 Summer 2003

The Criminality of the Closure of Bilston Community College

Good for Ben! (Zephaniah)

Catch 22 for those who closed Bilston Community College

An honorary degree for Jane Williams - the Friends' view (8th December 2003)

A review of Transforming Northicote School, The Reality of School Improvement by Geoff Hampton and Jeff Jones

Don't Forget Racism - email to Tony Woodley of the TGWU (4th September 2003)

Letter to Express & Star (8 August 2003)

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BILSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE 1984-1999 (5 August 2003)

Letter to Chief Executive of Wolverhampton City Council (July 2003)

Letter to Trevor Phillips, CRE Director (9 July 2003)

email to OFSTED criticising inspection of Wolverhampton City College (26 June 2003)

Letter to Dennis Turner MP as chairman of the Commons all-party Further Education Group (10 June 2003)

The proposed OFSTED inquiry into the failure of 16-19 education in Wolverhampton (24 May 2003)

Guardian 15 May 2003

The Friends' view on the Iraq War:

• Lessons of the War in Iraq (20 May 2003)
• Letter to the Prime Minister on Weapons of Mass Destruction (7 May 2003)
• Letter to the Express & Star newspaper (3 May 2003)
• Blair and his religion (May 2003)
• Iraq War - Immoral, Illegal and Cowardly (May 2003)
• Blair and Deceit (23 Apr 2003)
• email from George Barnsby to David Aaronovitch (21 Feb 2003)
• The peace movement in Wolverhampton and the Archbishop of Canterbury (27 March 2003)

Wolverhampton - the most important university in Britain (March 2003)

Letter to the director of Learning & Skills Council & Minister of Education (1 Jan 2003)

How the guardian helped close the first multicultural college in the Britain

Some multicultural literature recommended by Friends of Bilston Community College

An open letter to Paul Mackney, NATFHE General Secretary (June 2002)

An open letter to David Blunkett, Home Secretary (May 2002)

An open letter to Margaret Hodge, Minister for lifelong learning and higher education (April 2002)

The Final Bilston Community College Accounts - A Personal Statement (October 2001)

Letter to the Director of the Learning and Skills Council (29th September 2001)

A Guide to Those Who Closed BCC (March 2001, updated 27th September 2001)

How Institutionally Racist is Wolverhampton City Council?

Closure of Bilston Community College (draft discussion paper)

Report of a Meeting of the FRIENDS (6 Sep 2001)

Fraud by Whom? (30th August 2001)

Community Education Seminars

To email the Friends contact their spokesperson, George Barnsby, at: [email protected]