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.
Today, I spent the afternoon with this year’s participants in the Mosaic International Leadership Summit. This was part of a programme that aims to develop leadership skills, inspire thinking about global issues, and equip young people to become involved in their local communities. It lasts for 12 months, with 80 international delegates aged 25-35 taking…
Dear UK politicians, There’s a Year 7 assembly story I remember very well from my time as a middle school headteacher… It involves a frog, a saucepan of water and some heat. The frog is happy in its water, even though the temperature is getting hotter. It doesn’t complain and it doesn’t jump out of…
The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is known as the President’s Award in Kenya, or the PA for short. Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit two very different schools where the Award is being run. Both were girls schools; both were full of engaged and enthusiastic young women. But they were as different as…
This week, I made my inaugural address to The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Forum, our world conference, which is held every three years. What follows are my speaking notes – and some of the slides that I used as illustrations. We are the world’s leading youth achievement award, bringing together practical experiences…
Today’s correspondent is Clark: Well, it’s my birthday. I woke after a great sleep and dozed in bed until Sam knocked on the door, saying that the porters were all ready and wanting our bags. Everyone screamed, “Happy Birthday” to me as we headed across the street for an amazing breakfast of hot chocolate,…
The nations of the world (or at least the Scout representatives of those nations!) are beginning to arrive on Jeju. I went up to the International Conference Centre with the rest of the UK team that had already arrived to register and saw a fair number of old friends. Before that, however, I got up…
