Women on Boards: It’s Time for Quotas!
Following his visit to the Northern Future Summit (8th– 9th February 2012), UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he is considering bringing in quotas …
World’s Worst Mentors
As a follow-up to my last blog post about the mentoring mistakes I’ve made, I thought I would write about the World’s Worst Mentors. Sadly, …
Mentoring Mistakes – I’ve made a few!
Having mentored young people for several years now, I thought I’d reflect on all the mistakes I’ve made along the way. It started more as …
Yes! Yes! Yes! To AV
Well OK. You only need to say one “yes” to the Alternative Vote, but the ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’ does explain the simplicity of the system. …
Silent killers of women
Yippee! I actually passed my cholesterol and blood pressure exams today and quite frankly these have been the hardest exams I have ever had to …
Are women their own worst enemy?
Are women their own worst enemy when it comes to gender equality? It seems to be so. Today, a Belgian consumers’ organisation, one that is …
Stop trying to ‘fix’ education with technology.
My head is swirling after two days at the ‘Learning Without Frontiers’ 2011 event in London. Based on the ethos of “rebooting education” the 3-day …
e-skills ‘Girls in IT’ networking event
On 7th December 2010, e-skills UK, the skills council for business and information technology, hosted a networking event at their offices in London for over …