In the spirit of provoking a dialectic of possible worlds I came across an interesting model of football club ownership this weekend when I read about Ebbsfleet United Football Club:
Fans’ community website MyFootballClub has agreed a deal to take over Blue Square Premier outfit Ebbsfleet United.
The 20,000 MyFootballClub members have each paid £35 to provide a £700,000 takeover pot and [...]
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“How many students who participate in “enterprise activities” go on to become entrepreneurs?”
So I was asked this week. It stumped me for a while but it set off a line of thought which I wanted to explore. It seems that Enterprise in Education has been around ever since the Margaret Thatcher set up TVEI in 1982, whilst Young Enterprise goes back even [...]
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During my visit to Preston Lodge this morning I asked a class why they throught they were able to produce such outstanding work in the Art Department - and believe me it is outstanding.
The answer blew me away!!
“They take what we know and help us learn more” Natalie
Jim Cram, the Principal Teacher, explained that the [...]
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I was invited to attend the North Berwick High School Slow Food lunch on Thursday. What an exceptional event - over 700 pupils fed a very high quality meal in two sittings.
Congratulations to all involved Jane Hamilton in particular - thanks to all who sponsored the event.
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I was out in Humbie Primary school yesterday afternoon.
Humbie have embraced the active learning approach for early years which have seen the introduction of pre-school approaches into early years of primary.
The school are now exploring the use of the coaching in the learning and teaching process. Some of the teachers in the school were exposed to [...]
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I gave the welcome to our Depute Head Teachers this morning at their first annual conference. The theme for the day was “Entrepreneurial Leadership”
I began by reinforcing the difference between entrepreneurial leadership in a “for-profit” environment” e.g. Alan Sugar, and entrepreneurship in an educational (not-for-profit) environment - i.e. social entrepreneurship.
I shared three definitions of Social [...]
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We’re holding our first Depute Head Teacher’s Conference on Tuesday at the Marine Hotel, North Berwick.
The theme of the conference is Entrepreneurial Leadership. 27 Deputes will be in attendance.
I’m opening the conference, followed by Paul Raffaelli giving his perspective on Leadership in East Lothian.
Ewan MacIntosh will then present an on-line video presentation on an alternative [...]
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How would you like to work in a place which set itself out as ”A Space to Grow”?
A place where you could:
Achieve your personal goals;
Provide an outstanding service;
Fulfil your sense of vocation.
A place where your employers:
cared for your personal welfare and well-being;
focussed upon the impact of their service to users;
were flexible and willing to take decisions based upon [...]
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Determined to Succeed is the Scottish Executive’s strategy for delivering enterprise in education. It aims to help Scotland’s young people develop self-confidence, self-reliance and ambition to achieve their goals - in work and in life.
I was delighted to learn that an extra £1 million of funding for enterprise education was announced today as a report [...]
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In my recent post about Entrepreneurs in Education I quoted from a new book about entrepreneurs in education which stated:
“One critical factor is making available more transparent, timely, and relevant information about student and school progress, which would enable educators, parents, and community leaders to make more informed decisions and set the stage for entrepreneurs to [...]
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