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October 29, 2017 By georgina

Employability skills: 4th Industrial Revolution – a ticking time bomb

Why do we wait until young people are leaving school to look at employability skills? Businesses are struggling to stay competitive and complaining about the lack of skills the education system is providing (1) we need to be better prepared for the opportunities the 4th Industrial Revolution (2) is providing. Key points for us in […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 4th Industrial Revolution, Building our Industrial Strategy, emotional literacy, emotional resilience, Employability skills, life coaching, mindfulness, Ofsted, personal development, self responsibility, self-esteem

September 24, 2017 By georgina

Broken education

I call on the Government to stop wasting anymore time, money and resources trying to fix a broken education system.

I call on the Government to stop wasting anymore time, money and resources trying to fix a broken education system. Wake up! We need to transform the system for tomorrow. Having witnessed first hand the broken system when I worked for six months in a school as a personal development coach. We were trying to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: broken education, building self-esteem, confidence, DfE, emotional resilience, empowerment, Ofsted, parents, personal development, self responsibility, students, teachers, well-being

July 19, 2017 By georgina

Ofsted is waking up to reality?

Ofsted will closely monitor schools that chase meaningless “badges and stickers” and turn themselves into exam factories rather than offering a well-rounded education, the chief inspector of schools in England has said. Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, said school leaders should be ashamed of some of the tactics used to bolster their league table […]

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July 22, 2015 By georgina

THE Common Denominator

Our children and young people are faced with huge issues every day: abuse in many forms, managing pressures and mental health, issues around beliefs and faiths. The major common denominator of these challenges is little or no self-esteem. Our work over the past twelve years has been focused on the most vulnerable young people but […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: building self-esteem, little self-esteem, no self-esteem, Ofsted, PSHE Association, self-esteem, support services, the Government

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