Pupils turned off school find a new route to success

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  Pupils turned off school find a new route to success   Orgininally published in The Guardian on Tuesday 2nd of February 2010 A new work-based mentoring programme akin to an apprenticeship is having great success with young people who don’t get on with school Ashleigh McIntosh has had a three-month placement at Fairfield Housing Association…. Read more »

The real meaning of social enterprise

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  The real meaning of social enterprise   If Cameron’s new model army is to change Britain, we’ll need my friend Mark Orginially published in The Independent on Thursday, 12 November 2009 Mark Peters is 32. His parents fostered a number of children, one of whom, John, was sectioned in his late teens. John’s dispiriting treatment… Read more »

Our Fifties-style ‘chalk and talk’ schools clearly aren’t working

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  Our Fifties-style ‘chalk and talk’ schools clearly aren’t working   Originally published in The Independent on Saturday, 10 October 2009 In his 1930s bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie argued that success was 15 per cent technical knowledge and 85 per cent the ability to express ideas, assume leadership and arouse… Read more »