Jeremy McClintock

Education and Islam

30 June 2009

Hi guys, with 12 personal development centres now fully rolled out across a broad geographical sweep of the UK, our bespoke organic upskilling packages are delivering swathes of eminently employable young adults onto the jobs market. Right Path Management does not shirk the challenge while young turks like Purnell fall by the wayside.

It was one of our instructors at our latest PDC in Bicester whose smartphone pinged up this Google Alert: a ‘Jeremy McClintock’ joker who suggests there is movement among the Arabs to relinquish hold of the third holiest site in Islam (clearing the way for an Al-Quds Travel Tavern, I shouldn’t wonder).

What balls conjecture from the false prophet McClintock aka Fight For Your Mind (how about fighting for other people’s minds unJez, the poor, the dispossessed, the downtrodden, those who need our help to help themselves?).

You know my involvement in politics these days is confined to transparent lobbying for education, but the McClintock You Can Believe In thinks the Al-Aqsa Mosque should be impounded by a coalition of the willing, including Israel, to ensure that it is in a fit and proper state to loan back to the Muslims who think it's theirs. We need to stop terrorism.

Audits of the spirituality contained in the actual building will be carried out by a dispassionate body of the great and the good from theology: Archbish George Carey, Rabbi Lionel Blue, Rasputin, Sandi Toksvig and Rev Anthony Hogscoff Blair. We need to stop terrorism.

In the meantime, the Islamist people are free to upgrade the supermosque they’re planning to build in Newham to the position of 3rd holiest site in their sinister global network of beliefs, if they want. See if I or the Right Path Party care. Obviously we do in a way but not at the moment because we're affecting disinterest which is a mask for our mood with the British peoples' move to the right in recent elections that has not resulted in more support for our uniquely branded position of sensible prejudice. (I should also add that the branding process personally cost me £2,080.67+VAT. I can't claim this back on 'expenses'. Democracy? DeMOCKracy more like.")

This guy’s psychological baseframe needs some serious realigning. Looks like they could use some PDCs in America too.

 

Careers pathway leads to Lee

15 April 2009

Welcome to the McClintock base. It’s been a quiet few months for yours truly online but not in the adult educational field. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills released its ‘learning revolution’ white paper, pledging £20m to further people’s education! Twenty mil? Right Path Management has already invested more than that in a way in our Personal Development Centres, now up to 13 in number nationwide.

Nevertheless, this thinly veiled attempt to bump up the numbers being instructed via ‘informal learning’ won’t derail genuine initiatives such as TrainFame. We are delivering upskilled, employable young adults by the call centre-load, and if the DWP, BERR and DIUS had any sense they’d hand us a tranche of development funds to roll out worldscale job creation schemes.

There is a still role to play in getting out to the community, inspiring people by giving them a flavour of what it is we do. And RPM does not shun spreading the message in the most blighted areas (as I say in my corporate presentation – Real help now for the skills savvy in our communities, now). To that end, we are back in south-east London on Thursday 23 April, at Lee’s ‘Dirty South’ club, rolling out the Socratic vibes. Come fire yourself up. 

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28 January 2009

A huge thank-off to all those who came down to New Cross to catch the TrainFame last Friday. I met with a lot of you guys post-briefing to assimilate your views. Many of you seemed keen to focus on the other acts, such as Marxist hagiographers Radio Revolucion and the Brockley Singers, although I am in no doubt that you left inspired at the options available to you through RPM.

I attach a PDF of the introductory briefing, which for technical reasons we couldn't show. Download The questions

For LEAs, consultancies, quangos and other vesteds, please email for the full 134-page paper. Catch up with you soon. 

Nu-thought @ New Cross - Get Skilled Y'All!

19 January 2009
Here's the details of the event at London's New Cross on Friday. It's a night being put on the Campaign for Lifelong Learning Alliance (CALL) and I'll be doing my thing from a different part of the educational spectrum, hard-wiring change into the system.
 
Come reboot your career pathway!

At the two-way

19 January 2009

Happy new year people. After our early successes at Chertsey College for the Mind, it’s been a busy few months for all of us at Right Path Management, getting the Sappington Bounce Brain Trust on stream and rebooting Skills@Norbury. Not to mention delivering key TrainFame insights at seminars and conferences and consulting with the consultants: all in a day’s work for a skills guru! Spreading the nu-thought to old-school institutions is also key: The University and Colleges Union is a key provider of adult and further education, and Community Education in Lewisham (not these guys!), that borough’s educational supplier. Here is an abridged version of what I had to say to them, and them to me. I’ll be down in the area this Friday to spread more insight. More above.

CEL UCU: Hi Jeremy, thanks for granting us this insight into the role of the top-class consultancy in the world of FE and adult education.

J: Not at all. Thank you for this opportunity to spread my views. 

CEL UCU: So talk us through your vision for adult education.

J: Listen, there are many things a consultancy can do that a board of directors or county council cannot. Most importantly, we can take the difficult decisions … speak with John Denham's voice … liaise with our local sponsors … remove the deadwood, that sort of thing.

CEL UCU: They have a better idea of what they can get away with?

J: We certainly know how to push the envelope of organisational change — our experience is invaluable.

CEL UCU: Or, at any rate, extremely expensive. You’re unelected, protected by commercial law — totally unaccountable.

J: No-one's unaccountable in a free market! In any case, why should a postman have a say in how FE colleges are run?!

CEL UCU: So tell me about the accountability of Right Path Management. Specifically, have you not run into some criticism from some quarters within the staff at your pioneering scheme in Chertsey?

J: Criticism is impossible when institutions and their enablers are subject to constant, hourly evaluation.

CEL UCU: I refer to this pamphlet, "Chertsey College of the Mind's Eye, Winter 2008”. There are some accusations leveled at RPM that I'd like to addr— 

J: Give me that! That pamphlet has been withdrawn, so I will assume that this one was stolen. I refer you instead to our groundbreaking ‘TrainFame’ press pack.

CEL UCU: Would you care to comment on what a top-flight consultancy such as yours has to fear from a photocopied college rag?

J [folding away the pamphlet and gradually regaining cool]: You can't underestimate the importance of brand image. If people obsess long enough over so-called facts and figures then they may well make some pretty warped claims and where would the skills needs of our people be then, hmm? [Solemnly, with head bowed] Especially at this time of profound economic incontinence.

CEL UCU: Isn't it precisely the facts, figures and the forms that outfits such as yours increasingly place under their remit and claim they can competently cover?

J: What a narrow view you have of people and their potential. We offer so much more! Professionalism. Enterprise. Real-life scenario planning. Life mapping. A greater choice of soups and sandwiches.

Come down to our 'Thrive! Hour'® in the central quadrant every morning and you'll understand just why we have so much pride in our young people. And in some of our senior people too, who we are clearly helping in their ongoing struggle with senility.

CEL UCU: Let me read from another copy of the newsletter: “a fifth of classes closed this year ... effects of restructure still being felt ... enrolment system still in chaos ... senior positions not yet filled...” and “A bunch of soulless, incompetent bureaucrats who treat tutors worse than cattle”.

J: [taking second copy and folding it away]: You are testing my patience now and the legal statutes of this country which I happen to respect. Any further questions will be fielded by the County Council's legal services department.