Read about our agendas to support schools and communities with practical organisational development and career management focus: we work with schools to help them achieve more with less; we work with communities to support the individuals within them to achieve more for themselves and their communities.
In a previous post I mentioned how the news should always be taken with a pinch of salt because good news doesn’t sell newspapers as well as bad news. It is, however, becoming increasingly worrying when the words “recession” and “economy” and “difficult” are constantly on. There is a saying, however, that can turn...
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The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has published a number of reports earlier in September about the importance and best practices surrounding the use of Labour Market Information in career education and guidance (CEG). The three reports, having similar titles but very different contents are important empirical evidence that career guidance should...
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I’m working on a project that will be revealed soon. This project started out as a hypothetical exercise attempting to seamlessly integrate career education into the standard curriculum and became larger – much larger than that. The main reason for that is conversations I constantly have with...
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I’ve been working on a project over the past few weeks that has been getting me involved with the realities of schools. I realised some harsh truths about how schools need to operate in order to tick the boxes they are asked to tick. I found out that often, educators get so wrapped up...
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Rhizo-what? – some background. I recently watched one of the latest additions to the RSAnimate YouTube channel, Manuel Lima talking about the power of networks. In this part of this talk, Lima shows how we, as humans, have changed the way we look at nature. Starting from the roots of modern science, where we...
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How appropriate to discuss language and language skills in a time our nation is flooded in a celebration of culture and language. Language is a fascinating thing. It is a window to a culture. It is a living thing. It is also an unbelievably practical tool that we rely on and use every day...
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