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SPOTLIGHT ON EXCELLENCE
by Sir Peter Birkett | August 2021 | Education FRAMING THE SUCCESSFUL SCHOLAR (PART TWO) Many studies exist on how to predict student drop-out from Colleges or University. Poor attendance, risky social behaviours, low expectations, low achievement and lack of...
SPOTLIGHT ON EXCELLENCE
by Sir Peter Birkett | July 2021 | Education How To Be A Successful Student (PART ONE) What Makes a Successful Student? The factors which determine a successful student inside and outside of the classroom need to be identified first, and then actioned and repeated....
Sir Peter Birkett in Conversation with: Jason West, FRSA, CEO of the Educational Wealth Fund
PB: Can You Briefly Describe The EWF Vision? The EWF is creating a national endowment fund to help comprehensive schools become the most wonderous and inspiring of all human places. Imagine our schools with life-size dinosaur skeletons, art galleries, planetariums,...
Sir Peter Birkett in Conversation with: Dr Stefania Passamonte, President of the LPMAM
Sir Peter Birkett & Dr Stefania Passamonte - LPMAM PB: Please describe the LPMAM vision. SP: LPMAM is a new International Music Conservatoire focused on Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion. The LPMAM vision is to prepare a new, diverse generation of...
SPOTLIGHT ON EXCELLENCE
by Sir Peter Birkett | June 2021 | Education FRAMING EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE In order to gain a detailed understanding of how and why some schools seem to achieve consistently better results than others, we need to inspect the belief systems and strategies employed by...
SPOTLIGHT ON EXCELLENCE
by Sir Peter Birkett | June 2021 | Education SINGAPORE’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Since gaining independence from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore has become an economic powerhouse with an education system which is considered among the best in the world. Without any natural...
SPOTLIGHT ON EXCELLENCE
by #SirPeterBirkett #May #2021 #Education Canada is a Class-Act Compared with the UK’s population of almost 67m, Canada sustains a population of just over 38m across its vast landscape of 10 provinces and 3 territories. It is a country which embraces values of...
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SPOTLIGHT ON EXCELLENCE
The Secrets of South Korea At the end of World War II, South Korea was a nation with an 80% illiteracy rate. It wasn’t until after the North and South Korean war in the 1950’s that South Korea began to quickly climb the ladder to educational excellence with a fierce...
SPOTLIGHT ON EXCELLENCE
A Danish Hygge is best There are some things in life the Danes hold sacred in their culture; Freedom, Choice, Trust, Equality and Hygge. Like Finland, its Nordic neighbour at Number 1 in the World Happiness Report and also in Education, these qualities are at the...