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Following the damning Ofsted report on Isle of Wight council's education, we try and get answers from the people - Steve Beynon and David Pugh - who were in charge, before they left without bearing the consequences.
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"We cannot learn the lessons if we cannot question Mr Beynon and Mr Edwardson to find out just what went wrong," says Cllr Whitehouse.
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The now-ex Chief Exec of Isle of Wight Council, Steve Beynon, has started selling himself as a "Strong strategic leader with proven track record of addressing under-performance", an "Inspiring communicator" with "Honest and consistent behaviour".
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MP says there was too much energy expended on changing the structure of the school system and an unhealthy obsession with new school buildings instead of a steely focus on what is going on in the classroom.
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Even the top brass at the IWC are confused as to whether Steve Beynon is being made redundant (as they've claimed previously) or retiring (as the official invitation to his leaving party says). Find out more ...
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Retired Hack asks why Steve Beynon is being given a redundancy payment when he had already declared he was going to retire this year, which would have cost the Island nothing. We estimate it will cost the Island £47,000, not just £13,000 that the CP ran as their headline.
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Council leader Cllr Pugh refuted the suggestion that Steve Beynon had threatened the MP with action if he moved into the Riverside Centre, calling it a 'false accusation'. On subsequent examination, it looks like the threats of action were against the Riverside, rather than the MP.
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The council's Chief Executive seeks to blame comments from Islanders, claiming they caused an un-named county council to pull out of negotiations to provide educational consultancy.
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As predicted yesterday by OnTheWight, he's leaving ahead of the election, which, as recently as November, he had stated he had "no intention" of depart before.
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Have you been hearing the rumours too? We put them to the council's Chief Exec.
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Steve Beynon responded to our inquries about new restrictions on bookings at the Riverside Centre, but important questions still remain unanswered
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Steve Beynon sent us this in response to the question we published after Government figures revealed that the Isle of Wight Education Authority came 150th out of 150 English local authorities for expected progress in English and Maths between KS1 and KS2.
