A few weeks ago I wrote that the UK and its devolved governments tried to fix a problem with student grades that wasn’t there. What I meant by that was that rather than tackle the issue of a final assessment of performance, which had been interrupted because of the pandemic, Read more…
In this period of uncertainty, many of us are working longer hours, ramping up our productivity, trying to reinvent our lives in the face of redundancy and blurring the line between work and home more and more. Work-life balance – what’s that, I hear you cry! Well I’m not really Read more…
“We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. …We are gods in the chrysalis.” Elbert Hubbard Two weeks ago I wrote about understanding your vision for social impact very well to avoid unintended negative impacts as much as possible. The definition of Social Impact that I tend to Read more…
I’ve been working on a social return on investment analysis for a carbon storage programme in Indonesia, when I came across a relatively new concept in valuing social impact. The project currently uses the Climate Community Biodiversity (CCB) Standards and has structured its outcomes accordingly, which has been very useful for identifying Read more…
In July I wrote about how important a rights-based approach to access is becoming and about how equity is sometimes more important than equality. Last month, the UK government and devolved administrations demonstrated spectacularly why these issues are so important when they tried to apply an algorithm to already standardised Read more…