tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post7063286189708916268..comments2024-03-29T07:14:55.029+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: John van de Laarschot: A Political ObituaryPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-12343652169793610332021-11-21T20:19:12.849+00:002021-11-21T20:19:12.849+00:00John van de Laarschot - JvdL to his chums - has le...John van de Laarschot - JvdL to his chums - has left the building. He went off on sick leave in April and, though expected to return in a few weeks, has now resigned - whether with a deal, noone but JdvL and the college corporation know. The senior management team appointed after he arrived at the college are all gone. So ends a needlessly distressing time for FE in the city. JlvD will doubtless take much credit for the newly-built college site for the reduced numbers of students, and no doubt point to the lack of radical zeal among FE staff and lower-grade managers. DvLj: one of a kind :)<br /><br />For more on Laarcchot's sojourn in FE:<br /><br />https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/students-need-tough-love-says-248684<br /><br />https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/educational-revolution-college-isnt-revolution-391039 <br /><br />The celebration of the 2019 Nottingham FE strike:<br /><br />https://ucuemrmb.wordpress.com/nottingham-college-dispute-2019/<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-15971684288355575792020-01-25T12:15:24.984+00:002020-01-25T12:15:24.984+00:00I come from Stoke-on-Trent, this man's previou...I come from Stoke-on-Trent, this man's previous fiefdom. I could never understand how the people who appointed him could be fooled by such a second-hand car salesman. And now it seems like he has pulled the wool over the eyes of another appointments committee. Good luck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-10044702627453859252019-11-17T19:44:49.103+00:002019-11-17T19:44:49.103+00:00Not sure I can add much to what the above comments...Not sure I can add much to what the above comments already state. A man with no integrity and the business morals of a modern day Fagin. How anyone at Nottingham College, who was involved in agreeing this man's appointment, can justify this decision is quite beyond me. His stint on Wife Swap marked him out as a narcissistic sociopath and his tenure in senior council posts, most recently Stoke, mark him out as a money-grabbing cheat. Hopefully, by the time he is inevitably shown the door and given another enormous and thoroughly undeserved gargantuan pay off, the Trustees will have learned their lesson and will appoint someone with the capability to do the job properly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-40008626080552776712019-09-23T21:39:14.527+01:002019-09-23T21:39:14.527+01:00Turned a working college into an omnishambles, the...Turned a working college into an omnishambles, the man is a fool and deserves no respect, nor the golden handshake that he’ll be receiving! <br />I predict, within the next 18 hard fought months , he’ll be receiving more money than I’ll see in my lifetime and the praise of the board of governors for all his hard work and efforts for seeing the organisation through a turbulent time, jobs for the boys! <br />I’d like to see if we can sue the board of governors for appointing this blatant charlatan and has caused so much unnecessary tomfoolery to our organisation instead of somebody who actually knows how FE works and , get this, cares about the students’ education ! A crazy concept for that man to grasp but, a golden handshake? He’d grasp that in a heartbeat! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236230634407669029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-82289182411678460702019-09-05T21:42:07.833+01:002019-09-05T21:42:07.833+01:00This man is now my ceo, having read this I now sus...This man is now my ceo, having read this I now suspect that this overpaid and underworked snake oil salesmen will take the golden handshake well before he has finished messing up further education for the people of Nottingham. Quote- “it’s not about education, it’s about money “, I have zero respect for this man or his methods. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236230634407669029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-20175399255004306032018-01-07T12:15:00.044+00:002018-01-07T12:15:00.044+00:00This town is so bloody corrupt. The councillors ar...This town is so bloody corrupt. The councillors are mostly in it for what they can get,and the whole place is in thrall to the university. God help you allForeignerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03910689250310488955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-31253054769966365492017-08-06T13:04:28.450+01:002017-08-06T13:04:28.450+01:00God weve ended up with him HELP!!!!!!!
God weve ended up with him HELP!!!!!!!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-74255267202265107272015-11-20T21:04:01.119+00:002015-11-20T21:04:01.119+00:00SADLY MISSED BY NONE!SADLY MISSED BY NONE!asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com