Gearing up for a pitching meeting is always a little like standing in the wings just before darting onto the stage with a flourish and announcing yourself with fluid iambic brilliance. You gird your loins, press your shirt and make yourself battle ready. Same as an interview, same as any meeting really. You want to … Continue reading Behave yourself, this is a place of work.
Author: edducan
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
If yes, you could find yourself the lucky recipient of a new brain. Much like ambling down the yellow brick road to pick up your new thinking head, recent research shows that if you were to head down to the metaphorical Scarborough Fair and picked up the herbs suggested you could improve your memory and … Continue reading Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Bafflingly short sighted government hacks seek to decimate opportunity. (Or why the fair funding formula is a staggering idiocy.)
The nature of this blog is to question the status quo, to be an agitator, not simply for the sake of agitating of course, no one likes someone who agitates, just to agitate. Or uses the word agitate quite so much. The reason I'm trying to rock the boat is that I think there's an … Continue reading Bafflingly short sighted government hacks seek to decimate opportunity. (Or why the fair funding formula is a staggering idiocy.)
To BA or not to BA…
When it comes to finding jobs, are degrees still the magic bullet or a nasty scam? And so the debate trundles on endlessly, after years of education for all, the Orwellian nightmare of some animals being more equal than others comes full circle. Degrees have become so devalued and intrinsically useless from a career perspective … Continue reading To BA or not to BA…
Holy shit! It’s the terminator, we’re all going to die/have limited career options in the future.
It's been at the forefront of scaremongers' A boards for years, you'll know the kind - dirty faced, distant look in one eye, laser focus in the other, shuffling around urban retail developments using their own urine as both a means to stay clean and repel pigeons. 'Our robot overlords will kill us all', 'the … Continue reading Holy shit! It’s the terminator, we’re all going to die/have limited career options in the future.
All Filler, No Killer – The Top 5 mistakes people make in their CVs.
Without wishing to grouse endlessly about how badly schools are preparing kids for their future work lives, it's hard not to when I see the standard of instruction surrounding how to order and write a CV. Now, I will say that this is not a phenomenon exclusive to students, this is something even very … Continue reading All Filler, No Killer – The Top 5 mistakes people make in their CVs.
Studio Schools – the great white elephant in the room.
Let me begin by saying I'm an advocate of Free Schools and Studio Schools, I know people have objections to them and you could easily levy the claim that they are political pawns and are educational sleights of hand and are gimmicky or elitist and many other things. However I think parents and communities are … Continue reading Studio Schools – the great white elephant in the room.
How do you solve a problem like Knowsley?
The future is Knowsley. So says the sign that meets you as you drive into the area. The clue to the issues around their education problems is highlighted quite perfectly in their slogan. It barely scans, it doesn't work and requires of the reader to make odd contortions of their vowels to make sense of … Continue reading How do you solve a problem like Knowsley?
Here comes the sun… Top five tips for work experience goodness.
Here comes the sun. Possibly. Whilst I can't guarantee sunshine. I can guarantee that at this time of year schools will ostensibly remember their obligations to the students finishing out the first year of sixth form, and try and run them through some last minute work experience. What's less clear is why they will have … Continue reading Here comes the sun… Top five tips for work experience goodness.
First post, take that schools!
Charles Ponzi. Bernie Madoff. Benedict Arnold. Richard Nixon. Lance Armstrong. Some copper-bottomed, hall of fame, heavy weight champions of world class liars. Their very names are synonymous with deception, lies, fabrications, flights of fancy and half truths. Notably absent from that list is 'every school in the UK'. However, and it's a big 'however', this … Continue reading First post, take that schools!