Yesterday I had the exquisite pleasure of attending the first of David Gurteen's new series of open Knowledge Cafés. The event took place in the surreally beautiful oasis of Regent's University London, which I approached at dusk with the sense of entering a DreamWorks version of a wizard's boarding school, replete with wild and ancient... Continue Reading →
Working on the HeppSy+ programme has made me ponder connections between a happy life and the ‘confidence and resilience’ strand also found in the new Character Education framework. [6 minute read] The importance of building confidence and resilience in young adults cannot be overestimated. In a recent mental health survey, the largest ever conducted on... Continue Reading →
The current paradigm perceives schools as machines producing clearly delineated and measurable outcomes. The current paradigm has apparently not met Mrs Humby. [6 min read] Two apparently disconnected events, yesterday’s teachmeet hosted at Ormiston Venture Academy in Great Yarmouth (#IgniteTM) and Monday’s social enterprise conference at Sheffield Hallam University serve to profoundly contextualise Sir David's... Continue Reading →
At Norwich Research School's unmissable Slow-Burn Leadership conference at University of East Anglia, Sir David Carter's speech was ostensibly on "effective collaboration and system leadership in East Anglia." In reality, he spoke of ethical leadership, cultural shifts and courage. As such, he precisely mirrored the points made by big guns in business at the Knowledge... Continue Reading →
When it comes to knowledge and knowledge production, the education sector outguns Big Data and all traditional industries, combined. Here is a call for us to take ownership of that fact. Enter Knowledge Management. This week, I attended the ARK Group’s annual Knowledge Management Summit in London, eagerly attended by some of the largest corporations... Continue Reading →
What do schools, universities, public bodies, professional networks, global corporations and national governments all have in common? That an enigmatic blob of human beings is their key to success. [1 minute read] More monitoring tech, more management and more "evidence-based" intervention consistently fail to tackle 'poor performance' and other challenges when they approach human nature... Continue Reading →
At first glance, Participatory Budgeting would seem to fit snugly into the left-wing, child-empowering, progressive fold. At second glance, you might say that it sits equally well with the competition-driven Dragon's Den of standard neo-liberal Enterprise Education. But, like Katharine Birbalsingh, Participatory Budgeting defies categorisation and, as such, could open a liminal space for a... Continue Reading →
Pertinent to the profound themes of last month's VNET Conference, you are now invited to join exceptional colleagues to explore how manageable civic engagement can be aligned with the new Ofsted framework. [5 mins read] Every school today faces an insurmountable impasse: A recent report by the RSA shows that 84% of young people desire to make... Continue Reading →
The stranglehold former public-school pupils have on the UK’s top jobs were laid bare today in a hard-hitting report by the Sutton Trust education charity, shows that virtually every key profession is dominated by privately educated pupils snaffling the senior jobs. From The Independent. Their grip on power is most noticeable in the judiciary, where 74... Continue Reading →
Real safeguarding: A new tailored Cooperative Learning course directly to secondary pupils for one of the UK's leading Cultural Competency Trainers AKSAA are market leaders in Islamic Awareness and Cultural Competency Training. Since 2004 more than 17,500 delegates have undergone unique and insightful courses delivered in over 80 different Local Authority locations across the UK.... Continue Reading →
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