Tim Curtis
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Tim helps people and organisations make decisions in complex and confusing situations. He is also adept at getting decisions made when he is not in charge. He has worked in environmental decision-making, in policy and law. Now, working at the University of Northampton his focus is on the 'social' in social enterprise. He mostly teaches students how to make decisions, but also coaches and undertakes paid and pro-bono consulting work.

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Michael Gove Got a G in GCSE history!

(0) Comments | Posted 17 May 2013 | (15:32)

OK, that was a barefaced lie, but it caught your attention. That's what headlines do, and it seems that they inform government policy. And it seems that government policymakers barely get to read below the headline.
Robert Downes, champion of the small business, seems to suffer the...

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Values and Ethics in Socially Entrepreneurial Universities

(0) Comments | Posted 17 May 2013 | (15:30)

Annie Gosling and Owen Gower, in the book on the future of higher education 'Blue Skies: New thinking about the future of higher education', present a defence of the values of higher education institution. Their choices of values are very interesting and important for social enterprises and Universities interested in...

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Curious Too

(0) Comments | Posted 22 June 2012 | (15:51)

Funny how ideas come together. I was asked yesterday for a list of features I want to see in our graduating students, and top of my list was curious. Top of the pile of Huffington Post UK this morning is Kate Lemon talking about the power...

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Zen and the Art of Mathematics

(6) Comments | Posted 21 June 2012 | (08:46)

I am a child of the 70s and suck at mathematics. I married a maths teacher to get out of doing basic maths at home. Nevertheless, what we share in common is problem-solving. This morning the 'Torygraph' is banging on about standards of mathematics being worse than in...

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Cameron's 'Big Society' Is Simply Not Wicked Enough!

(3) Comments | Posted 30 May 2012 | (17:51)

You know, there's a good reason why the real social entrepreneurs are not taking Cameron on at his own game. It's because his much debated 'big society' is just not wicked enough. It's tame and won't solve the social problems in the UK, let alone Greece.

You see social crises,...

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