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Education, education, education.
Currently there is no bigger issue in the whole area of learning, training and development. And for the first time the needs of teachers are centre stage, because the challenges they will be asked to face in delivering the enormous education changes which are about to roll out, demand that they acquire leadership and management skills to an unprecedented professional level.
Rhema recognises the importance of what is happening in the education sector. We are also well aware that this is the time of year when schools are working on their annual improvement plans. This Spring 2007 Rhema Newsletter is an Education Special, full of information and ideas for Heads, teachers and senior management in schools. In addition to this we are building a new Teacher Development section of our website – you can get to it directly from our homepage www.rhemagroup.com
Very recently the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, remarked that although when he had left school there were plenty of jobs for the vocationally unskilled and those without higher education, now there are many fewer jobs of this type and soon he expects there to be none.
Growing concern about NEETS (“not in education, employment or training”) points to new legislation to keep young people staying in some form of education or training until 18 - because a complete “education cut-off” at16 can no longer serve their learning needs, nor the needs of employers in UK plcs in future. As is happening in the wider and increasingly competitive business world, schools and colleges are accepting that s tandards which were good enough yesterday must be raised in preparation for tomorrow.
Schools have seen a decade of unrelenting change, and now the Government is planning a total transformation of education in the UK. Its agenda embraces effectively raising the school leaving age into early adulthood, further rethinking the curriculum and investing billions in school buildings and ICT. (see below for more details)
In all this transformational change the Government’s focus is on those who are to be educated. Rhema is taking a lead in focusing on the needs of the educators.
We know that teachers understand they must develop their skills to lead and manage pupils and projects- to be “the guide on the side more than the sage on the stage”. As Professor Steve Molyneux, Learning Lab Director, points out (see Advanced learning and building for the future), most new jobs will occur in computer related fields and 80% of the jobs do not even exist yet. In the Industrial Economy education was all about transmission of content, and learning was separated from the outside world: in today’s Knowledge Economy learning is a social process integrated with the outside world- with teachers leading and managing collaboration and performance.
We know that the time has arrived for teachers to be given the fresh insights and skills they need to achieve all this, and we aim to lead the way in providing the training and development solutions they need.
Managing Director
