While the UK restricts funding for the courses older people like to do, at Harvard they have big ideas: don't retire, retrain for a new career. Where the Harvard initiative diverges from other models of "ongoing education" – and the reason advocates for older people in the UK are showing an interest – is because of the ambitious and positive message it sends about older people to wider society.
For more, see - http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/12/advanced-courses-retirement-harvard
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Driving Bold Change
We have talked before on the Positive Leadership blog of what business leaders can bring to education:
http://positiveleadershiplimited.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-business-leaders-can-bring-to.html
Here is a fascinating interview with the Chancellor of the New York City public schools, Joel Klein. Klein is a product of the schools he now runs. He attended New York City public schools for 12 years, then went to Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell and eventually became the Justice Department's antitrust chief under President Clinton.
The video interview is instructive for business and education leaders in the UK also: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/12/16/VI2009121600664.html#
http://positiveleadershiplimited.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-business-leaders-can-bring-to.html
Here is a fascinating interview with the Chancellor of the New York City public schools, Joel Klein. Klein is a product of the schools he now runs. He attended New York City public schools for 12 years, then went to Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell and eventually became the Justice Department's antitrust chief under President Clinton.
The video interview is instructive for business and education leaders in the UK also: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/12/16/VI2009121600664.html#
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