Parliamentary Presentation
The Government will be challenged to take a lead role in ensuring society retains enterprise, entrepreneurship and healthy risk taking in our lives. Chaired by Libby Purves, well-known broadcaster, educationalist, entrepreneur, adventurer, the event will focus on the vital place of enterprise and healthy risk-taking in education, commerce, management, community and law. Six influential speakers […]
The joy of living dangerously
Forget exams and league tables, writes Richard Dawkins. Real education, exemplified by a maverick headmaster almost 100 years ago, is about the power of knowledge and the thrill of discovery. Richard Dawkins Guardian Saturday July 6, 2002
People with high self-esteem may be more of a threat to society than those with a lower sense of sel
Occasionally a new piece of research demolishes a myth with one fell blow. It does not happen often (social research tends to run along familiar tracks), but once in a while an iconoclastic study changes ideas. No one reading Self-Esteem – The Costs and Causes of Low Self-Worth by Professor Nicholas Emler of the LSE, […]
Duke says pupils must take risks
Prince Philip again calls for the right of young people to experience adventure – TES (26/10/01)
“Question of Balance” Conference
Press Article published in Young People Now (October, 2000) promoting the "Question of Balance" conference – After every crisis there are screams to make things safer, but at what cost to education?