your manifesto for education
Hey guysWow, it's now over a week since 2morro, we've just about recovered and had a bit of sleep. Now it's time to look at all the great stuff that came out of the event and to track where it goes. First up, some of you will have been to ESSA's Manifesto for Education and their Dragon's Den session where YOU got to pitch ideas on how we need to develop our schools and education system for the future. There were three proposals taken to the Den:- a proposal for learning programming and html with students from year 7 in ICT lessons
- a proposal for the develpment of a social enterprise scheme which gave young people the chance to develop their own initiatives
- And the winner was 19 year old Adam Tyndall who gave a fantastic speech on the need to make the British education system more globally focused and more competitive on the international stage.
The Dragons made up a great team. Dee Majek works for mWorld and has recently worked with a group of students from Newham college developing a website to showcase their achivements, making him particularly well placed to consider the proposals to changes in IT. Andrew Elliot is a member of the ESSA council for the North East, and is an expert on student voice. Omar Salem works for the Young Foundation on their Uprising initiative which gives young people extensive leadership training and the skills they need to make their ideas into realities. None of them let the competitors off lightly, demanding all the details of how it would work in practice.
ESSA got lots of ideas from the workshop and the Dragon's Den and will be writing it all up to contribute to the Manifesto. We'll share the full Manifesto with you when it's ready....
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