THE LATEST issue of The Porkbolter has launched the Worthing newsletter into its second decade of south coast dirt-digging and rabble-rousing.
The main article of the Yule 2007 bulletin concerns the creeping privatisation of our education system.
It reveals that Worthing High School wants to become a Trust school, announcing on its own school website: "The focus will be on entrepreneurship and enterprise and directly support Worthing's strategy for regeneration".
The Porkbolter links this to the SEEDA (South East England Development Agency)plans to develop a "skilled and adaptable workforce" to make the South East "one of the top 15 regions in the world in terms of labour productivity, competitiveness and employment rates".
Says The Porkbolter: "For the benefit of those who haven't learned to decipher their code, 'labour productivity' means long hard hours at the grindstone, 'competitiveness' means rock bottom wages and 'adaptable workforce' means staff with few rights who aren't represented by a trade union.
"In plain language, SEEDA wants to turn schools and colleges into training camps to churn out compliant ready-to-work human robots to boost the profit margins of the companies it represents."
Also featured is an expose of the so-called independent chairman of the recent public meetings on hospital downgrading - it turns out that Gavin Grey is in fact a professional spin-doctor being paid by West Sussex Primary Care Trust.
There are also updates on the move towards a police state, the Titnore Woods campaign and rebellious animals (other than the obvious Porkbolter piggies).
The Porkbolter notched up ten years of publishing in October.
It reveals that Worthing High School wants to become a Trust school, announcing on its own school website: "The focus will be on entrepreneurship and enterprise and directly support Worthing's strategy for regeneration".
The Porkbolter links this to the SEEDA (South East England Development Agency)plans to develop a "skilled and adaptable workforce" to make the South East "one of the top 15 regions in the world in terms of labour productivity, competitiveness and employment rates".
Says The Porkbolter: "For the benefit of those who haven't learned to decipher their code, 'labour productivity' means long hard hours at the grindstone, 'competitiveness' means rock bottom wages and 'adaptable workforce' means staff with few rights who aren't represented by a trade union.
"In plain language, SEEDA wants to turn schools and colleges into training camps to churn out compliant ready-to-work human robots to boost the profit margins of the companies it represents."
Also featured is an expose of the so-called independent chairman of the recent public meetings on hospital downgrading - it turns out that Gavin Grey is in fact a professional spin-doctor being paid by West Sussex Primary Care Trust.
There are also updates on the move towards a police state, the Titnore Woods campaign and rebellious animals (other than the obvious Porkbolter piggies).
The Porkbolter notched up ten years of publishing in October.
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