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The Covid Pandemic – an opportunity to re-configure the education system in England – – moving away from short termism in education policy. Our society will not recover from the strains imposed by Covid with our existing reliance on short-term thinking and constant change in how we plan and deliver education policy. Currently all educationContinue reading “The Covid Pandemic – an opportunity to re-configure the education system in England”

The pandemic has seen a significant increase in volunteering initiatives, most noticeably the NHS volunteering campaign that was launched during the first lockdown and more recently volunteering in support of the vaccination programme. There is a huge opportunity to sustain this beyond the pandemic by keeping millions of volunteers active through a scheme to createContinue reading “Sustaining the surge in volunteering occasioned by the pandemic and fostering a sense of community”

In a very minor way, I am unique. A BBC executive producer who worked in BBC Education and Drama for twenty years, and then a secondary English teacher for seven. I am still teaching. I teach over 240 boys and they are – like all their age – fixated by video games. Currently, it’s “Fortnite”.Continue reading “VIRTUALLY EDUCATION”

We placed our faith in recycling to solve our waste disposal problems and this had patently failed. Less than 20% of all waste has been actually recycled. Much of our waste is packaging. At the same time the Covid pandemic has created a massive shortfall in tax revenues which will need to be addressed. AdaptingContinue reading “Our system of waste management is failing us”

The debate on automation of mining operations is not new and has often raised different views. For mineworkers especially in developing countries, where mining is the main source of income, automation marks the beginning of hell. They will lose their source of income and the entire community will fall in a more deep poverty. But,CovidContinue reading “Automation and Capacity building in the mining sector: seizing the best out of Covid-19”

In February 2020, I was sexually assaulted by a senior Emirati royal whilst working abroad for the Hay Festival in Abu Dhabi. With Foreign Office assistance, I was able to leave the UAE and arrived home to report the assault to the Metropolitan Police as the UK shuttered into lockdown. In the long and lonelyContinue reading “Rape Prosecutions Dropped By Half During UK Pandemic Due to Court Backlog”

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strange effect on how people relate to their neighbours. Lockdown measures have confined previously mobile citizens to their immediate environments, greatly increasing the time spent in proximity to those sharing them. Yet social distancing measures make some many aspects of British ‘neighbouring’ newly fraught with anxiety: chats over theContinue reading “Neighbourliness: how to build post-pandemic infrastructure to support micro-community relations.”

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There is no doubt that Covid-19 has thrown up new digital solutions for the delivery of teaching services. My daughter is a primary school teacher in Melbourne, Australia and she has been teaching my Burmese born but now UK based 5 year old grandson online during lockdown. Many Government’s in poorer countries across the worldContinue reading “Exporting teaching services and more choices around school education”

Britain was ill-prepared to track and trace its citizens the during the Covid-19 crisis. A variety of schemes were announced with great fanfare, trailed in various localities and then quietly forgotten when they didn’t work. Ahead of a future pandemic or similar national emergency a preprepared system needs to be ready for immediate implementation. ThisContinue reading “A preprepared track and trace system that has use during normal times”