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10 Jul 2014
The power of positive thinking – and the destructive impact of negativity – was demonstrated by Brazil’s humiliation at the World Cup. Peter Sear FRSA explores the psychology of the host nation’s team.
28 Apr 2014
Education should be seen as an absolute necessity but our obsession with qualifications gets in the way of understanding the value of experience, argues Geoffrey Heptonstall.
16 Apr 2014
Leadership, as we know it, is not working. FRSAs Juliette Summers and Brian Howieson argue that the experience of organisations like Wikipedia provide some lessons about how to reconnect organisations to the public good.
03 Mar 2014
As the Carnegie UK Trust launches a new competition, Jenny Brotchie argues that the evidence for the positive impact of a high quality built environment on our wellbeing is clear and that people and good design must be central to regeneration efforts.
12 Feb 2014
Andrew Morley FRSA argues that those advocating restricting the wearing of the veil in court should tread carefully and consider the evidence around the importance of fairness in our criminal justice service.
20 Jan 2014
Pay and benefits are not enough when it comes to employee satisfaction. Alexander Kjerulf FRSA argues that employers also need to make their staff happy.
20 Dec 2013
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11 Nov 2013
Anyone who was moved watching student Musharaf Asghar overcome his stammer to deliver his moving school-leaving speech on Channel 4’s ‘Educating Yorkshire’ will understand instinctively how the measure of a school’s success is about much more than simple academic achievement. Headteacher Jonny Mitchell continually reinforced this message during the series. For him, the purpose of the school was to develop ‘decent human beings’ as well as secure the qualifications each student needed.
07 Nov 2013
About 50 years ago, the great Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons wrote that the professions have: "become the most important single component in the structure of modern societies." In an increasingly complex society do we need the professions more than ever in helping us to negotiate the world about us? Or conversely, at a time of much emphasis on empowered investors, stakeholders and citizens is the need for professions diminishing?
22 Oct 2013
Frank Hore FRSA David Low FRSA
The NHS has got to be more focused on patient care. Teachers will have to try harder. Not long ago, town-hall budget cutbacks were not going to impact front-line services. And for years now the private sector has institutionalised ‘can-do’ as best practice: everyone’s got to accept greater responsibilities with fewer resources.
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