A tremendous article today in The Times about Career Academies. I am delighted.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6244285.ece
A tremendous article today in The Times about Career Academies. I am delighted.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6244285.ece
The Award in Barbados is fifty years old this year. Fifty years of giving young people the opportunity to give service to their communities, learn new skills, get fit and discover more about themselves as they work in small teams to undertake their adventurous journeys. Fifty years of equipping young people for life. So…
HRH The Earl of Wessex unveils a train named in honour of the DofE’s Diamond Anniversary and is interviewed by DofE participants about the success of the DofE, as part of the Royal Diamond Tour.
They sharpened their pencils when they were 7. They sucked on the ends of their Berol handwriting pens in the summer of their last year of primary school. Today, thousands of sixteen-year-olds in England are getting the results to their GCSEs. If you know someone who’s going to be making that trip to school to…
In just a few short weeks’ time, thousands of teenagers will be traveling to South Korea to attend the World Scout Jamboree. They’ll be flying in groups of around 36 young people, with each group accompanied by four long-suffering and truly wonderful volunteer adult leaders. If you’re one of those teenagers, or one of those…
It’s not often that you get visited by a member of the British Royal family. Today, however, we were visited by three. HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Earl of Wessex came to reopen Award House, home of The Duke Of Edinburgh’s International Award. And, apparently for the first time,…
I was speaking to a friend in Russia recently about youth work. “There’s something about you Westerners that puzzles me,” she said, “What is it with your fixation on volunteering? Why don’t you expect to receive proper payment for all the time you spend working with young people? ” It’s an interesting question. I can’t…