C.E. Jottings

Shay Allias

An inspiration. Take a look for yourself. Andrew Sutton describes this YouTube video as "one of the best personal expositions that I’ve seen arguing both the necessity for and the effectiveness of a conductive upbringing." Read more →

Mind Brain Education

I read to day ("Trouble in Toytown" The Times) that "the first journal in the field of the application of brain science to education was inaugurated in March" of this year. I was mildly surprised at the claim but set out to see if I could track it down. It might be "Mind, Brain, Education" published by IMBES, the International Mind, Brain and Education Society. The new journal complements a newsletter first published in January 2006. Both the journal and... Read more →

An awful warning for all CEOs

Matthew Parris in The Times is always worth a read: often witty and thought-provoking. Having, it seems, spent nearly all year as Paces CEO grappling with Strategic Planning, trying to engage Trustees and Staff, I couldn't help but relish the following. It is an awful warning for all third sector CEOs, striving to make their enterprises more business-like in the contracting culture it seems we must now inhabit. I shall quote it in full. For some reason, it reminded me... Read more →

Valuing People Now; Healthcare Commission & Ed Balls

No comment, just a couple of useful links to the recently launched The Valuing People Now document and the Healthcare Commission's document which came out yesterday; and a couple of DCFS press releases from Ed Balls: "Ed Balls Launches Plan for Children" and "£53m to Help Disabled Children, Young People and Their Families". Light Xmas reading for a busy CEO and Dad. Smiles. Read more →

Not fully human - not able to learn well enough

The findings of neuroscience into how the brain develops are beginning to seep into mainstream media. An example from The Sunday Times, 2 December 2007, from 'Guest Contributor' Eleanor Mills. I shall quote at length from her middle section: "Neuroscience shows that emotional experiences in infancy have a measurable effect on how we develop as human beings; our earliest experiences of social interaction are translated into precise physiological patterns of response in the brain that then set the neurological rules... Read more →