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Leading educational organisations join forces to launch 'Whole Education'

Press release

24 May 2010

A gulf has opened up between what education systems provide and what children and young people need, according to a new partnership between leading non-profit organisations called Whole Education.
Local collaboration will be even more necessary in the tough times ahead

Blog

21 May 2010

Matthew Taylor

What does the Coalition programme mean for local government? Some of the most specific of the 28 points in the ‘communities and local government’ section focus on planning where the thrust is double devolution. Councils see the return of local planning powers, a measure which will presumably be used to block new housing developments where there is local opposition. But there will also be steps to give neighbourhoods an enhanced role in very local place shaping.
The Company of Strangers

Video

20 May 2010

Paul Seabright, professor of economics, Toulouse School of Economics
RSA unveils 2010 winners of Design Directions award scheme

Press release

20 May 2010

Design Directions encourages designers in training to apply their skills to difficult social issues. The RSA unveils award winners for 2010.
Power and Love: A theory and practice of social change

Video

19 May 2010

Adam Kahane, Reos Partners
An oasis of politics in a sea of turmoil

Blog

18 May 2010

Matthew Taylor

I have been a more than usually useless blogger recently. I have been completely sidetracked by my lecture on 21st century enlightenment, which is quite literally causing me sleepless nights as I veer from euphoric mania to teeth grinding despair. The plan now is to update the wiki with a full first draft by the end of next Monday. Someone innocently asked me the other day why exactly I perform an annual lecture. Being entirely unable to answer I had to go and sit in a darkened room for several hours to recover.
The Evolution of Comedy

Video

18 May 2010

With Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Nye and Caryn Mandabach.
What rights and responsibilities could you get behind?

Blog

13 May 2010

The hard reality of the spending cuts our new government will make in the next few years will force us to re-think what public services are and should be. The looming "age of austerity" will also demand that we ask more searching questions about the type of society we want to live in and the type of citizens we need to be. It certainly has me.
The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Video

13 May 2010

Mike Berners-Lee, leading expert in greenhouse gas footprinting
General Election 2010

Video

13 May 2010

With Anthony Painter, Mark Pack, Stella Creasey, Mark Hanson, Craig Elder, Harry Cole and James Crabtree