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Education Dept. Archive
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How to find Rosendale
Posted on July 3, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that searching for ‘Mike Rosendale’ around the internet leads users to quite an informational site! Â Engine Placed Page URL Found AOL Yes 1 www.edinburghsucks.com Google/ AOL Yes 1... -
Best education in the world – what happened?
Posted on July 3, 2006 | 1 CommentScotland was once the pride of the world when it came to Education. A Scots education was the key to opening doors back in the 70s and 80s and many... -
Teflon Don doesn’t trust Fraudster Rosendale
Posted on June 29, 2006 | No CommentsWell, well, well. Reading the answer given in today’s full council meeting from Counci Leader Teflon Don Anderson to Councillor Dawe with regard to Fraudster Rosendale’s handling of the Cityconnect... -
Cityconnect questions at full council – again
Posted on June 28, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that tomorrow’s full council meeting will again be discussing Cityconnect, ELLP and Wabster. Regular readers will know that this Head of Strategy for Children & Families’ gang of... -
Whistleblower heads to court
Posted on June 23, 2006 | No CommentsThe news this week that the whistleblower in the Cityconnect and ELLP fiasco is heading to court for further action against the council for their bungling cover-up of the loss... -
Cityconnect Alive and Kicking
Posted on June 9, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the council, namely Councillor Rev. Ewan Aitken and his director Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson are fully in support of their employees taking their work home with them. In... -
The £85,OOO council trainee
Posted on May 31, 2006 | No CommentsIt has been highlighted to us here at EdSucks that the huge problem of how the Cityconnect/ELLP krew managed to somehow arrange for £400,OOO and £188,OOO worth of equipment to... -
Council catching up with EdSucks
Posted on May 30, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the monthly full council meeting is trying to catch up with the stories on EdinburghSucks. The investigation into Cityconnect and ELLP is being asked for my Councillor... -
Donald Anderson – Tell the truth, PLEASE!
Posted on May 29, 2006 | No CommentsCouncillor Anderson, you REALLY must be joking! “We will be seeking firm assurances from the head of the department involved that these problems have been properly dealt with.” The head... -
Illegality cover-up in Children & Families hits Yahoo! and Microsoft
Posted on May 22, 2006 | No CommentsAfter EdinburghSucks.com highlighted the fact that the Council’s pisspoor website myEdinburgh was as secure as an open meadow and that employee’s and probably councillor’s emails were being read by “Rosendale’s... -
Calls to council costs more than calls to Australia
Posted on May 16, 2006 | 1 CommentIt seems that telephone calls to the council when you have a problem with their pisspoor website myEdinburgh is going to hit your pocket and hit it hard. When you... -
Can the council be this dumb?
Posted on May 15, 2006 | 1 CommentMore with the myEdinburgh fiasco. It just keeps getting worse. When the council arms-length company Cityconnect went tits-up with many accusations of massive fraud including accusations by the company’s auditors... -
EdinburghSucks proved correct…. again
Posted on May 12, 2006 | No CommentsAfter the highlighting of the security implications of the council run myEdinburgh website, specifically the mail system and the flagrant abuse of the security of said system, the council have... -
Edinburgh has it’s own two-shags
Posted on May 11, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the rather portly John Prescott has a double in Edinburgh with more in common that first thought. One of ‘Rosendale’s Fraudsters’, the man who ordered stuff for... -
Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson refuses parents calls
Posted on April 5, 2006 | No CommentsThe public servant in charge of Children and Families has had his secretary tell a parent whose 14 year-old daughter was viciously and seriously attacked in front of a teacher... -
Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson & The Hippy Rev’s jolly to Africa
Posted on March 27, 2006 | No CommentsWhist our First Minister is swanning around on his current world tour and is expected to touch down for a visit to Scotland in the near future, we find out... -
myEdinburgh shows the hypocracy
Posted on March 21, 2006 | No CommentsHypocracy is the act of pretending to have morals or virtues that one does not truly possess or practice. It seems that the publicity about “Rosendale’s Fraudsters” and the Council’s... -
The new myEdinburgh query
Posted on March 20, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the millions of pounds that the Community Education spent on the myEdinburgh website has further turned into embarrassment for Children & Families, specifically ‘Rosendale’s Fraudsters.’ Although the... -
Children & Familes & Social Exclusion
Posted on March 14, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that our post yesterday correctly moving Roy Jobson and Jim Inch straight into the “Rosendale’s Fraudsters” camp has caused some trouble over at the Children & Families run... -
Jennifer Long supports the Whistleblower
Posted on March 13, 2006 | No CommentsOver the weekend we received an email from a famous American whistleblower, Jennifer Long. Jennifer blew the whistle on widespread misconduct at the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS then tried...