Society Guardian features Career Academies
An excellent article about the work of Career Academies in Society Guardian today. It’s been interesting finding out which of my friends are Guardian readers… http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/14/4
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Leading Questions
Leading Questions – The Guardian’s Society supplement profiles me
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St Albans 10k
What a terrific course! It was described as ‘gently undulating’ and I suppose it was. There were no really difficult hills and most of the trail went along traffic free country lanes. The start was a bit narrow, being a pavement by a relatively major road, but otherwise it was a very jolly run, well…
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Phew, what a scorcher!
Hottest day of the year so far. I have just come inside having fallen asleep after lunch in the garden and realise that tomorrow I may well resemble a lobster. It’ll be a lobster that’s running 10k in St Albans, and I guess they are few and far between, but it will be a lobster…
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Graduation day
Our biggest graduation ceremony yet, with students from all over England. (Wales and Northern Ireland will graduate for the first time next year.) We took over Westminster Central Hall for the day and they looked after us tremendously.
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Surveying the Severn
Obviously, one of the first things that Jack-Patrick had to do on reaching the United Kingdom was to go and see where his antecedents used to live. Here, therefore, you see me looking in one direction, his mum looking in another, his dad adjusting the buggy (complete with ‘festival wheels’) – and the dog and…
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Smitten
I’ll be frank. I don’t normally like babies. They are unpredictable, fragile creatures that seem to cry all the time and frighten middle aged men like me. Everything changed today, when I met my nephew for the first time. Jack-Patrick May, newly arrived with his mum and dad from Australia, is perhaps the most perfect…
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‘Elf and safe tea
I have spent the last two days training Career Academy co-ordinators and others in the art of undertaking health and safety visits to employers who are offering internships. It has been enjoyable, because everyone’s been good natured and interested, but on both days it was impossible to avoid a feeling that what I was doing…
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A gentle bit of trumpet blowing… (!)
http://www.scouts.org.uk/news/archive/2008/april/240408.html
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Haute Cuisine in Glasgow
At the very top of one of the teaching blocks in Anniesland College, Glasgow, is a very small training kitchen and restaurant. In it, the college’s catering and hospitality students practise the skills and techniques they hope they’ll be using for the rest of their working lives. If the lunch I had today is anything…