Merchants’ Academy

• News / Education

  ‘I was paying for the bus to work rather than paying to eat’: staff continue strikes over school pay

  One teaching assistant told Bristol24/7 she is still paying off debt from her £17,000 salary

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• News / schools

  Staff at six Bristol schools to strike

  Staff have voted overwhelmingly to strike due to a dispute about backpay

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• News / Education

  ‘Society of Merchant Venturers should play no part in the education of children’

  MP Karin Smyth slammed the organisation after a damning Ofsted report of Merchants' Academy

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• News / schools

  New headteacher at Merchants’ Academy Secondary

  Guy Swallow will become the new headteacher at the school in Withywood from March

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• News / City Conversations

  What has racial inequality got to do with south Bristol?

  'It's not a competition of who has it worst - the problem is we are pitted against each other'

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