Never mind the quality, feel the blazer

His vision for schools?….. Or his? All of a sudden everybody seems to be interested in schools, with the two main parties slugging it out over who can be the more Dickensian whilst a major academic review of primary education (the Cambridge Review) is briskly dismissed by the Secretary of State... 
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Norsemen boost Policy Governance®

Split those roles Separating the roles of chairman and chief executive is a key condition to the successful operation of an organisation according to the tenets of Policy Governance®. This principle was discussed in a recent article by The Economist columnist Shumpeter asking ‘is there no limit... 
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Broon’s Care Bunny – Trick or Treat?

Broon’s Bunny makes roadkill of consultation? Was it a conjuring trick to thwart the consultation or just a soundbite one has to wonder?  We find it strange that with little over a month to go for people to have their say about the government’s social care proposals for England, the Prime... 
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Public Participation: Online Learning and Doing

E-Public Participation Building new channels and approaches that encourage public participation and produce good results and outcomes is a permanent pre-occupation for us. The big boost to the use of technology is the buzz around Obama’s White House policy. Delib’s September newsletter has... 
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