A for Achievement. A for Attitude. A for Attendance.
Mereworth Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-9161762-1-8 (ISBN)
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This is a marvellously inspirational story about Newlands Junior College, a small educational establishment set up on the south side of Glasgow. For five years the college gave a group of young people who had fallen out of secondary schooling a fresh start and a new direction in learning which steered the overwhelming majority of them on to positive paths in life.
This is also a salutary tale of life in contemporary Scotland. It is the story of the conception of the junior college - as a pilot project - and the efforts to build and sustain it and the disturbing prevarication by Glasgow's local education authority in making a small but significant shift in our nation's education system.
The college was a five-year experiment, costing just under GBP6.3 million over its duration, which proved to be an outstanding success. Everyone involved with the junior college assumed that if the experiment was successful, then its future could be guaranteed. However, this was not the case.
Kenny Kemp is an award-winning Scottish writer and journalist. He was a former staff journalist on Evening Standard, The Scotsman, and was the founding Business Editor of the Sunday Herald. He has written several works of non-fiction, including ghost-written biographies. He was co-author of Go: An Airline Adventure, which won WH Smith Business Book of the Year in 2004. He has been Scottish Business Writer of the Year three times, most recently in 2010. An Economic History and Politics graduate of University of Strathclyde, he is an Associate of the University of Edinburgh Business School. He lives in Edinburgh.
Introduction: The Life-Changing Endeavour
Chapter One: A Chronic Fall-Out At The Big School.
Chapter Two: Jim McColl Steps In.
Chapter Three: A Stubborn Problem Needs a Fix.
Chapter Four: The Genesis of A Junior College Takes Shape.
Chapter Five: A Colourful Dinner with Head Teachers.
Chapter Six: Sage Advice: The Arrival of Keir Bloomer.
Chapter Seven: White Heat: The Forging of a Founding Figure.
Chapter Eight: Rough Stuff: The Challenges of Govan High School.
Chapter Nine: A Driving Force: Business Step Up to the Mark.
Chapter Ten: Cathcart Creation: A Derelict Shell Becomes Place of Learning.
Chapter Eleven: The Right Staff: The Principal Appointments.
Chapter Twelve: The Arrival of the First Cohort.
Chapter Thirteen: How to Change a Young Person's Self-Image.
Chapter Fourteen: College Days: The Early Years of Progress.
Chapter Fifteen: A View from a Non-Teaching Insider: The NJC Mother.
Chapter Sixteen: Red and White Ties: Pride in the Badge.
Chapter Seventeen: Outsiders Looking In: The College Wins Local Support.
Chapter Eighteen: The Human Spirit: How to Fight Depression and Despair.
Chapter Nineteen: On the Road to Success: A Future with Arnold Clark.
Chapter Twenty: A Stream of VIPs Take Note.
Chapter Twenty-One: So How Was the College Doing?
Chapter Twenty-Two: Deal or No Deal: Council Pulls Plug on Transition Plan.
Chapter Twenty-Three: Shock and Dismay: The Pilot Spurned.
Chapter Twenty-Four: You Can't Defeat the Empire - Or Can You?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.03.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 pages of colour illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9161762-1-6 / 1916176216 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9161762-1-8 / 9781916176218 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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