It is 12yrs ago, that I took on the role of local organiser for Ecademy. Several small but disparate groups of networkers had been drifting without organisers for months, and so the first step was to amalgamate the groups. The… Continue reading
An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer-term support of each other’s activities. There are no… Continue reading
An informal networking group, held every month (usually on the first Monday) at the Victoria Arms in Old Marston. The focus is on informality and building friendships with peers for the longer-term support of each other’s activities. There are no… Continue reading
Does your profession expect you to use reflective practice (RP) to maintain the ability to practice? Increasingly professional bodies are seeing that attending workshops and conferences have limited long-term impact without the habit of RP. This is particularly true of… Continue reading
How extraordinary… I would NEVER have guessed that… “Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…” http://view.comms.cipdmail.com/?qs=0918937c42381e69d90baa3f67958a7bd5e11e4fe2aaee3cd8e401898947b254647c099a985728366eb4bfd0172a1e7e3b728005f32c133a0ca1fbcb05e2f3f4cb555e902c771c21776fd4675a10d035
A Facebook post by Debbie Bradley has raised some important points about the hypocrisy of modern education. In her (or rather her daughter’s case) this was about the gender bias of uniform rules, and how a failure to conform to… Continue reading
If you are interested in doing something a little intellectual, widening your worldview, or exploring new ways of engaging with life, then you might be interested to know that the University of Oxford Continuing Education programme for 2019/2020 has gone… Continue reading
In the last decade or so, most undergraduate courses, especially at the newer universities, have included a stream of activity known as “personal development”. Secondary schools and Further Education colleges have been including this for slightly longer. The content of… Continue reading
Our Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is the quality that sets us apart from other people. Of course, a USP has to have some kind of relationship to the needs of our ‘customers’ (for want of a better term). If they… Continue reading
UPDATE: Dec 2018. This course is now fully booked. If you had thought of booking a place, PLEASE keep an eye on the Continuing Education course site around June 2019. It will be run again in 2020. Very pleased to… Continue reading
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