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
The Achievement and Enterprise Coordinator at Our Lady and St Chad’s Academy in Wolverhampton – where we had previously worked – asked us if we could help with confidence and teambuilding with their more-able / academic students in KS3. We … Continued
On 7th November 2017 I stood in front of 200 nurses at the Nursing in Practice Conference at the NEC, after lunch to do the keynote speech about domestic violence. Specifically, I was telling Sarah Gosling’s story. Sarah was brought … 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
I recently saw a tweet referring to an article from FE NEWS about how well schools prepare children for their future as the All Party Parliamentary Group for Education (APPG) published their inquiry-based paper ‘How well do schools prepare children … Continued
Choice. Sometimes we have too much choice – all at our fingertips. It’s all there for us to download, listen to, watch, order, buy, read any time we want. Sometimes though, there’s less choice but the costs are higher if … Continued
Suffer Now, Live Forever As A Champion. The title is part of a quote by Muhammad Ali which I used during some work I recently did in a school who asked to help with revision sessions…and it turned into the … Continued