Working on a recent assignment for a corporate client refreshed my thinking about the roles and responsibilities PLCs may have or may soon come to have in respect of an extended stakeholder constituency. It also made me reflect further on the place of learning and development in this.

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Despite the billions spent by the Coalition and the previous government on school building programmes, research published this month by the British Educational Suppliers Association (Besa) has found that only 22% of English secondary schools have wi-fi access in most or all of their classrooms. Commenting on the BBC website...

I'm just getting my head round a visit to Nottingham in early November, home of Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, allegedly the oldest pub in the land. This is a claim contested by around 19 other pubs in England. And as someone not much taken by the idea of crusades,...

Over the summer I have been turning the pages of Richard Sennett's The Craftsman (2008) and Brian Morris' Pioneers of Ecological Humanism (2012). Each has an insightful take on the impact of industrialisation, capitalism and mass culture on human creativity, and on individual and collective agency. And together they set...

I want to live with common people

This month saw the 109th anniversary of the birth of John Clare. Clare was remarkable for many things, including the authenticity of his evocation of his native parish of Helpstone and his stature as the greatest pre-C20th working class English poet. His...

There's a thrusting new brand on the market. In a week when the government announced plans to scrap housing benefits for under-25s, the Prime Minister enthused about Hotel of Mum and Dad. Now research conducted by Magnified Learning and Legal & General reveals a member of...