Education in Emergencies
A partnership between The Foundation for Education Development and Read Foundation, will bring together leading voices for in depth discussion and debate on key topics, including:
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is making its way through parliament. Whatever bill emerges will have significant implications, ethical and practical, for a wide range of people and professions. How do we help and support all those involved in enacting the legislation?
The Senior Faith Leadership programme brings together emergent leaders from the three Abrahamic faiths. During the three days, they explore issues pertinent to leadership and engage in scriptural reasoning as a way of understanding each other’s faith.
Pride in Place has put neighbourhoods to the top of the policy agenda.
The ambitions of the £3.5 billion programme are far-reaching, promising the transformation of some of the most doubly deprived communities in the country. These are neighbourhoods that have experienced the loss of their foundational social infrastructure, and been hit hardest by the impact of deindustrialisation, austerity, COVID and the cost of living crisis.
Lessons learned from previous regeneration initiatives, from New Deal for Communities to Big Local, show that to achieve long-term sustainability and maximum impact it is vital that local residents are able to play a leadership role in local regeneration efforts. At 3ni we know that putting communities in the driving seat requires targeted support and resources to develop the confidence, skills, and capacity needed to lead change locally.
To fulfil the promise of Pride in Place, meet the objectives of future hyper-local place-based initiatives such as the Community Wealth Fund, and most importantly, improve outcomes in those communities that have been hit hardest by the impact of deindustrialisation, austerity, COVID and the cost of living crisis, communities need to be facilitated and supported to take action on the things that matter most to them.
Building this collective community efficacy, and strengthening the foundational social infrastructure and stock of social capital that it supports, will be critical to the successful design and implementation of a new neighbourhoods policy. We anticipate that the Pride in Place programme will include tens of millions of capacity building support for places which needs to be utilised effectively.
We wish to share insights about the reasons for the drying up of vocations as well as engender ideas of ways in which the situation might be improved. It is not a simple challenge of attracting people to ordained ministry but a threefold problem: attracting, continued fostering and retaining ordained ministers. Why has there been such a sudden drop in vocations? What are the factors that have brought this about? Are the reasons outside the Church or within our own practices? How can we make the clerical vocation attractive? Is it a matter of stipends? Unmanageable jobs? How do we sustain clergy over a whole career? Is it just a matter of money? Or is the problem ecclesiological in nature?
This is an international gathering to promote and explore the concept of High Performance Learning, which uses findings from neuroscience and psychology that suggest we can ‘build’ better brains and attain success for greater numbers of students. Taking what is known about how people reach advanced cognitive performance, the consultation translates this into a workable model for schools.
