30 Jun 2011
Wow! I almost have one full day in the office today! Just enough time to update you with what the student recruitment team have been up to recently.
The reason I am only in the office for half a day is that I am off to Havant this evening for an ev...
28 Jun 2011
I have been attending a course on nonviolent communication for the past two days. I know it sounds weird but it was fascinating. Here’s an example for you to play with. Take a recent conversation that did not go well and play it back through yo...
28 Jun 2011
The JISC RSC has released its Summer
Collection 2011, a suite of eight essential e-learning initiatives that
will support, stimulate and expedite the development and delivery of technology-based
learning throughout the region, with fur...
21 Jun 2011
A news item today referred to the Greek Prime Minister and some of his Cabinet members as ‘cosmopolitans’. The clear implication was that these people, all educated outside of Greece, had more in common with the international elite than they did ...
15 Jun 2011
Chris Rees founded Wessex Swim School nearly 7 years ago with just one pool and a handful of clients. Now the school has 700 clients weekly and employs 52 staff across 4 counties. The business started up slowly through self-funding, but by focusin...
9 Jun 2011
University of Winchester sports lecturer Richard Cheetham has started his own business, TWENTY17. TWENTY17 provides a variety of resources from motivational speaking in schools, colleges and businesses to presentations on innovative ideas for teache...
8 Jun 2011
About an hour ago I typed: ‘when is a Vanity Press NOT a Vanity Press...?’ at the top of this page.
60 minutes on I still haven’t come up with anything funny. And in fact I’ve rather lost track of what I was asking myself in the first place. I ...
8 Jun 2011
This free event will aim to share the exciting developments around the Co-generative toolkit (Co-genT) www.pebblelearning.co.uk/cogent. The event will cover three broad uses of the toolkit including: workforce development, personal development and...
7 Jun 2011
Leadership is a fascinating relationship between people who pursue a common goal and, in doing so, take on the ‘roles’ of ‘leader’ or ‘follower’. The leader’s role is to influence people in pursuit of the goal; the followers’ role is to support t...