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Articles by Mark Malcomson
Why bother with adult education?
By Mark Malcomson, Principal and Chief Executive at City Lit The definition for tertiary education is this: Any formal education after secondary school, also known as post-secondary or higher education. Therein lies the problem. The theory of education in this country is that our educational kitbag is meant to be primed and ready to go in our early twenties and is supposedly designed for us to last through potentially 50 years of work and the period afterwards.
What I learned from leading in times of disaster - Mark Malcomson
By Mark Malcomson, principal and CEO of City Lit This isn’t an ordinary story, but it is one that everyone knows a part of due to the nature of the day. Despite it hopefully being a once in a lifetime event, I think there are lessons here on how leaders might approach disaster. The toll that a disaster - whether it's external, personal or otherwise - can take on mental health is vast, and therefore I hope my experience is of benefit to you this World Mental Health Day.
'My plea to the DfE: don't forget adult education'
Every organisation is facing its challenges as it makes its way through completely uncharted territory. City Lit is no different. The difficulty, it seems, for every organisation is that we don’t have all the information we need to make the best decisions. Often, I feel we are flying blind.
Adult education: 'The 2020s must be the decade of lifelong learning'
In the past year, adult education has had an unusually high level of focus from politicians. Labour and the Liberal Democrats both supported commissions to explore future priorities for lifelong learning, the Commons Education Select Committee inquiry into skills was well underway and the Augar Review has been completed.
How I succeeded as a dyslexic college principal
I’m one of the adults of a certain generation who didn’t get assessed for dyslexia when they were a child. I often joke that it hadn’t been invented when I was a kid – which, of course, is nonsense. All I knew was that certain things didn’t work for me. The first was reading aloud. Somehow what my eyes saw would never reach my mouth in the proper order or make sense. Learning things by heart didn’t work either; things just got mixed up in my head.
None of us is perfect, so let’s be open about our challenges
Recent research suggests that one in six of us experiences a common mental health problem every week in the UK. Digesting figures like this, and seeing examples in recent months of high-profile figures, including royalty, entertainers and sports stars, opening up about mental health issues, we believe there has never been a more important time for us to have the confidence to speak openly about our mental wellbeing.
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