New blitz on compensation culture
Boost for 'character-building' school trips as ministers warn parents who sue after mishaps – The Observer 30 May 2004
REVIEW – 2004: Weekly outings urged to help timid pupils
Guardian coverage of a report by influencial think-tank DEMOS – May 24 2004
The Grand Old Duke of Edinburgh has no patience with political correctness
Ian Wooldridge Daily Mail 15 May 2004
Educationalists, Volunteers and Landowners should gain from Private Members Bill on Volunteering
Educationalists, Volunteers and Landowners should gain from Private Members Bill on Volunteering – House of Commons debate, Friday 5th March. 2004 [Compare this with the new 2006 Compensation Bill]
REVIEW – 2004: Puttnam calls school trip fears ‘barking’
Lucy Ward, education correspondentThe Guardian
Brazier to launch Private Member’s Bill
A little bit of history: How the Compensation Bill emerged….. Julian Brazier’s Bill to assist volunteering will be presented to the House of Commons on Tuesday 6th January. There will be a short press conference at 10.30am in Room W1, immediately before Julian presents the Bill to Parliament. The Bill has the support of the […]
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)