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Creative Futures are Here
In this edition of Education Update, local creative industries advocate and training provider SIAN CONWAY-WOOD asks ‘Who is the creative economy for?’ Kate Butts181st Street Students: Left to right: Lewis…
Let Nature be your Teacher
CHRIS WATKINS When I met Elliot Riley he showed me round his sunny suburban garden in Bexhill, which itself has grown unusually ; He told me about the plants there,…
Driving Positive Change
In a recent issue HIP considered the arguments over academies vs local authority maintained schools. Here CALLUM THOMSON interviews Liam Collins, former headteacher of Ark Alexandra Academy. Ba Kode I…
Expanding Hastings Higher Education
CALLUM THOMSOM Hastings is no stranger to film and TV crews, with their numerous vans often spilling out along the seafront. The Great Escaper (2022), Close to Me (2021), Dear…
Who Runs our Schools?
Our new education correspondent, CALLUM THOMSON, a former Hastings teacher, considers the debate between Academy and Local Authority schools. Ba Kode Academies are state-funded, non-fee-paying schools which are independent of…
An A* for Author Visit to Local Schools
The pioneering reading scheme created by Hastings National Literacy Trust Hub and Bloomsbury Publishing proved itself to be highly successful yet again, with the final author visit of the year…
At the Heart of Hastings Future
The Education Futures Trust (EFT) has a mission. It, “aims to improve the life chances of children, families and vulnerable adults in Hastings and the surrounding area by helping them…
Catering Alumni Returns to ESC’s kitchen
Last month, Coast Restaurant opened its doors for an exclusive pop-up dining experience led by East Sussex College (ESC) Hastings alumni, Rob Hill. Rob returned to College to speak to…
Why We Opt Out of School
Hastings parent, JESS LUBY explains why she chooses to to home educate her ; When I’m asked by people and tell them why we opt out of school, I get…
Education Matters
Gareth Stevens introduces a new education section in Hastings Independent. The great American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey once said that “Democracy has to be born anew every…
Teachers make their own protest
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Last Thursday, 48 hours after the pupil protest of 28 February, the Hastings Academy was closed for the day to some or all year-groups when teachers staged a…
Exclusions and Appeals
The University of Brighton Academies Trust, which is the governing body of the Hastings Academy, sets out its exclusion policy on its website as follows: “Where the academy’s approaches towards…
Learning to Change the World – Learning to Think
The common link between my time working at a hotel that subsequently burned down, interviewing Basil Brush and spending ten weeks walking backwards around Sussex with a stop-go lollipop and…
University of Brighton launches 3 month consultation on Hastings
After much confusion and protest following the announcement in March that the University of Brighton would be pulling out of Hastings, U of B have launched a 3 month public consultation…