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Why collaboration is necessary and learning to work across boundaries should be compulsory
Professor John Diamond (Director of the University’s I4P) makes the case for working across boundaries: Edge Hill’s Festival of Ideas brings together a number of shared themes and ideas. One of them – working across the different professional or discipline boundaries that can inhibit good practice, is reflected in a number of talks and workshops.…
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The importance of school governance and accountability
Professor John Diamond (Director of the University’s I4P) points to the glaring policy and practice contradictions in this recent announcement: The news that a national academy chain is to drop its school based governing bodies and opt for a combination of centralised decision making, whilst having local school ‘ambassadors’, raises a number of really important…
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Why all universities should consider a Festival of Ideas
Professor John Diamond (Director of the University’s I4P) makes the case for expanding Festivals of Ideas in Universities: This week sees the start of the Edge Hill’s Festival of Ideas – Imagining Better. It is like many such initiatives – it draws on an eclectic range of events from public lectures, to films, to drama…
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The importance of executive education programmes for public sector managers, and why ‘silo’ thinking should be challenged
Professor John Diamond (Director of the University’s I4P), reflects on the need for executive education programmes: A key point I want to make from the outset is a declaration of interest – I am the co-editor of an international journal which is committed to publishing essays and research papers from academics and practitioners engaged in…
