Some of the students on the Education Policy and Entrepreneurship for Development course. Today I was invited back by the University of Newcastle to give my lecture to the students on the Masters of Education course in Education Policy and Entrepreneurship for Development. First the Doctor in charge gave a run through the phonics programmes…

Today I was invited by the University of Newcastle in the UK to give a guest lecture on “Education Policy and Entrepreneurship for Development” for their Masters course in International Development and Education. As an “Education Entrepreneur” I was asked to run through how (i.e. songs, games & projects) & why (because too many schools…

Tomorrow is my first Genki English presentation in the UK, and it’s quite strange to be in “travel mode” here as I haven’t the foggiest idea about anything. I know the trains will be late, but how late to expect them to be? Free WiFi and power was a nice thing, but I was quite…

Yesterday I popped into the University of Newcastle for a chat about the upcoming Genki English trip to India. It does seem like a very exciting, very different and very interesting project to be involved with. Not least of which is because of the just-on-the-right-side-of-crazy people who are running things! I’m sure I’ll be writing…