IN BLACK AND WHITE – a book review.
I don’t often do book reviews – I mean, there will obviously be one of my own book The Ladder as we approach its launch in February – but I feel compelled to tell you about this one. I’ve just … Continued
I don’t often do book reviews – I mean, there will obviously be one of my own book The Ladder as we approach its launch in February – but I feel compelled to tell you about this one. I’ve just … Continued
Apprenticeships and benefits. Earlier this week I chanced upon a discussion in the Careers Leaders UK Facebook group regarding apprenticeship choices and benefits. In essence, a student at the school of one of the careers advisors on the group was … Continued
Bernie hosted the #Tycoonathon events at the Peter Jones Foundation’s #Entfest19 at University of Buckingham, 28th June 2019 There were two consecutive events, for Primary and Secondary students, based on the Love Buckingham brand – teams had to … Continued
Hello, I hope you’re well? We were looking at the year–so–far recently and during that time I did some personal reflection on the personal aims I set in January after reading a report highlighted in Adam Alter’s superb ‘Irresistable’ book, … Continued
From all of us, to all of you, Have an amazing and Happy Christmas and a prosperous and exciting New Year! Here’s to 2018 and all it may bring!
Habits, habits, habits. What word springs to mind when you see ‘habits’ – Good? Bad? Clerical? – I bet the main one was ‘bad’, right? Most of us would agree that we have a few bad habits wouldn’t we? Some … Continued
Here’s another short blog post for you – it’s a daily reminder, print it off, put it on the fridge, next to the kettle, at your desk, on your bike, on the mirror…you get the idea: “Be SO GOOD … Continued
Future Skills – research and responses. There have been a few new studies and reports written recently about careers development, support and access in the UK. I read a few of them over the weekend and will try and make … Continued
Skills and knowledge or skills v knowledge? Our last blog was about the World Economic Forum’s research into the skills needs for the 21st Century and so by definition, what we need our young people to be learning about alongside … Continued
New skills, old skills? New organisations, revisited skills? As you will probably know, we have been working with young people for 12 years – we started off delivering Enterprise programmes (hence the name!) in schools and we’ve developed in a … Continued