I have just spent a fascinating morning with Evan Davis of the BBC Today programme and Sir Win Bischoff, recording an item to be broadcast over the Christmas holidays. Win and Evan interviewed a number of Career Academy students at Sir George Monoux College about their experiences of the programme. The young people were superb…
Another milestone for Career Academies UK, as we held our first residential training course for teachers. 40 schools and colleges were represented, making this our biggest Year of Planning group ever. They’re going to be a great group too. Lots of enthusiasm to push the employer engagement agenda forward. A strong commitment to raising young…
The new World Scout Committee held its first meeting over the weekend, (my first, of course) and it was also the first of its kind under the new Committee structure that was established at the recent 38th World Scout Conference in Korea. There are still twelve elected members with voting rights, of which I am…
Running today’s race was very different from usual. Firstly, it was on roads I know very well, having travelled on them almost daily when I was a schoolboy. Secondly, Mum, Joe Trish and Jack-Patrick turned out in the foul weather to support me. The course was mainly flat, except for a rather tedious climb up…
I have just returned from the European Scout Region’s first Scout Academy, an event held for leaders from all over Europe in Mollina, near Malaga in Spain. It was a resounding success and I was delighted to be able to attend. Sessions were held throughout the week on a whole range of different topics; for…
Terry Leahy must love Hungary. Wherever I looked this weekend, I could see either an enormous Tesco or a billboard telling me where the nearest enormous Tesco could be found. I was in Sümeg, in the westernmost county of the country, about an hour north of lake Balaton, for the annual gathering of the Friends…
I am not alone in thinking yesterday’s organisation was a bit chaotic… http://runtomybeat.co.uk/forums/t/225.aspx
An overhyped and very poorly managed event. The day didn’t start well, although no-one can blame the event organisers for the vagaries of London’s tube system. Just at the critical moment when thousands of people were trying to get to the O2, London Transport suspended the service on the Jubilee line, stranding us all on…
“When Cash in the Attic came on, I just had to stop everything.” “Is there is an Ikea in Bucharest?” “I do like Chinese food usually. It’s just that Frank doesn’t like stuff that’s too exotic.” “You just need trumpets.”
Berlin is a beautiful, chilled city. Its Marathon appears to be run by the friendliest people ever – efficient, but human. Lots of smiling marshalls, excellent provision of water and the German equivalent of Gatorade. Thousands of bananas, ready peeled and thrust at runners as if we were performing chimps. And lots of very, very…
