Ian Pryce, Bedford College Principal & Chief Executive,
blogs about the College, education in Bedfordshire and other
interesting topics of importance.
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Earlier this year distinguished Professor Roy Baumeister made the bestseller list in New York with his book on Willpower (Rediscovering our Greatest Strength).
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One of my old University lecturers used to complain that his liberal education left him able to understand every side of an argument but meant he ended up never knowing his OWN view of anything as a result!
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Younger readers won't have known the TV programme “Challenge Anneka” in which the eponymous presenter spent an hour running around trying to coerce all sorts of people into delivering a project to a near-impossible timescale.
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The private training company A4E, whose Twitter profile boasts "from humble beginnings to global leaders in public service reform, in 3 words: improving people's lives" has been making the wrong sort of headlines in recent weeks.
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The news has recently been dominated by the bankers' bonus season - will they get them? Will they take them?
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The best news of 2012 year so far is surely some long overdue justice for the family of Stephen Lawrence, especially against the backdrop of the Luis Suarez and similar stories hitting front and back pages.
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This is the time of year when self-help manuals fly off the bookshelves faster than a Usain Bolt false start! “This book can make you thinner, richer, confident, beautiful, the envy of your dinner-party friends” they scream
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When Albert Einstein was asked to explain his theories about the elasticity of time he famously said that spending five minutes in the company of a beautiful woman went far too fast.
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It was very sad to hear news of the death of one of my childhood heroes and favourite boxer, Smokin’ Joe Frazier.
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This week the Times Educational Supplement (http://www.tes.co.uk/) reported that a director of a private company (Elmfield Training) that delivers taxpayer-funded apprenticeship training, had been paid £3 million last year (getting on for $6m).
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Andy Murray has just put together an astonishing series of tournament wins in the Far East but has so far failed to win one of the four majors, despite reaching at least the semi-final in them all.
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Much as it upsets me as a lifelong Chelsea fan, you can bet that by the time you read this Manchester United will be back to winning ways!
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Further Education (FE) Colleges are made for the real world, the world as it is, a world of challenges and complex problems.
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As an educator I am increasingly convinced we have major issues to address to ensure we do not continue to fail today’s youth and undermine economic growth.
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It was George Bernard Shaw who asserted in his maxims for revolutionists that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Ten years ago social media did not exist. The next big thing on the internet is predicted to be Google+ which acquired 20,000,000 users in 24 days.
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Last weekend the college hosted the Rhythm Festival at its Shuttleworth campus.
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Read Bedford College Principal & Chief Executive, Ian Pryce's latest blog entry 'Let's stop bashing young people and find them the jobs they deserve'.
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Madison welcomes in the good weather, as her holidays from the Sixth Form centre begins...