Tag: Greenwich

Environment

Hosepipe Ban Reaches a Greenwich Pensioner in the Rain

Yasmina Khan

The British Taxpayer’s Perspective: Genesis 6-9 Meets Thames Water and Britain’s Most Expensive Relationship With Rain GREENWICH, LONDON: A London pensioner has demanded clarification from Thames Water after discovering that she may not use her garden hose during a hosepipe ban, even when standing in the rain. Margaret Wilkins, 78, was tending her begonias when she received another reminder about conserving water. She looked at the clouds, examined her damp…

Education Culture Governance

School Support Staff Rally: Essential, Just Not Payable

Judi Online

Westminster Declares Teaching Assistants Essential, Explains Why They Can’t Be Paid Like It LONDON, ENGLAND | More than 1,000 teaching assistants and school support workers from Greenwich and Merton planned a Westminster rally on 9 October in a dispute over London weighting. According to the GMB union, support staff in affected schools receive lower Outer London weighting than teachers working beside them, a gap of up to £1,400 a year.…

Education

Two Cash-Strapped Universities Merge

Alan Nafzger

Two Cash-Strapped Universities Merge to Create Britain’s First Institution Too Large to Admit It Is Broke Kent and Greenwich combine 50,000 students, four campuses and enough senior leadership to supervise every remaining sheet of printer paper. CANTERBURY, ENGLAND – The University of Kent and University of Greenwich have completed their merger into the London and South East University Group, known as LASE, creating what administrators call Britain’s first “super-university” and…