Tag Archives: Steiner schools

Odds & Sods(2)

After a hiatus (we’re house hunting and skint, expect delays) here’s another Odds & Sods post, my way of putting on the blog short items of likely interest to readers such as brief updates to earlier blog posts, snippets of …

Steiner racism & state funding – Tories offer SWSF lessons on spin

The Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF) ‘special pre-election seminar’ mentioned in an earlier post has now taken place and a concise and accurate record of the ‘special’ seminar appears below. It notes comments from top Conservative spokespeople concerning Steiner racism …

Anthroposophy’s favoured UK Pension Scheme Hits the Skids

Mercury Provident Pension Scheme (MPSS), instigated by Mercury Provident (an Anthroposophical bank) and launched in partnership with Provident Life back in the early 1990’s, has a £4.7 million fund deficit and has closed its doors to new participants. …

Four Steiner Schools close in a month, more closures anticipated

September 2009 saw the demise of four Steiner school ‘initiatives’ and schools. The now defunct organisations are the Durham Steiner Initiative, Aldringham Green School Association, Raphael Steiner School (Suffolk) and Welsh based Steiner school Dan Yr Afallen. Basic information about …