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Editor’s Welcome Education and jobs is an important part of our future. Especially among our young people. With the governments drive towards apprenticeships, we have dedicated this issue on guiding young people and employers how the scheme works. The Mojatu Foundation has extended its work to West Africa with the launch of Mojatu Gambia magazine (p16). This ties to the next international FGM conference which will be hosted in Burkina Faso, West Africa in September 2016 (p17).

Elections for the Police and Crime Commissioners are coming on 5th May. The current Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Paddy Tipping shares with our readers what he has done for our communities and why he should be elected (p29). See also information about a recent conference on BME policing in Nottingham (p8). Michael Henry of Communities Inc. also shares his thoughts on building relationships between the police and BME communities (p8).

Are you looking business owner or run an organisation and need to employ someone looking for an opportunity to develop their skills too? Apprenticeships are a cost effective way of getting enthusiastic young people to train for the job role you want to fill and they can add immediate value to your business/organisation. (p11).

Are you an African Organisation or group in Nottinghamshire? You are invited to join the new Global African Integration Network (p11). Do you want an opportunity to meet and work with other African girls and women? For women empowerment programmes and network with other African women beyond Nottinghamshire, join the African Women Network (p9).

Valentine Nkoyo Managing Editor: Mojatu magazines Email: valentine@mojatu.com

Editorial Group Editor: Frank Kamau – frank@mojatu.com Managing Editor: valentine@mojatu.com Graphic Design: Robert Borbely Contributors: Kris Gunnars | Michael Henry | Lekeisha Walters | Joe Matsiko | Dr Tejendra Pherali | Timothy Ogden | Laura Blackie | Alison Scott IT / Social Media: Michael Grant | Jahvan N-R Photos: Maggie Ndungu | Flarex Media Accounts: Joan Muraguri - accounts@mojatu.com Admin: Penny Cooper - penny@mojatu.com Sales & Marketing / Community Engagement: Abdoulie Jah - jah@mojatu.com Kevin Price - kevin.price@mojatu.com Edwin Ubah - eddy@mojatu.com

Contents News & Sports The Value of Apprenticeships.................................... 4 How to Employ an Apprentice.................................. 5 Changing Perceptions of Apprenticeships....... 6-7 Improving relationships with Police........................ 9 African Communities invited to join network...10

Community Somalia: Education and Peacebuilding......... 12-14 Turning migrants into philanthropists.................14 Migration: Oldest & best anti-poverty tool.........15 Mojatu Magazine Launched in The Gambia! .....16

Arts & Culture Charlotte-Louise Brailsford.......................................18 Rising from Ashes in Nottingham Broadway.....19 Roy Pickering - Borrowed Land: Exhibition.........20 Why vote Paddy Tipping for PCC............................21

Health & Food Proven Ways to Boost Your Metabolism........ 22-23

Education & Career 11 crucial CV questions answered ................. 24-25 The Emperor’s New Clothes............................... 26-27

Classified Open Farm......................................................................29 Muslim Directory..........................................................31

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THE VALUE OF APPRENTICESHIPS:

You make the qualification; the qualification does not make you.

By Joel Matsiko

The job market is a very competitive place and for a variety of reasons the traditional perceptions of how one is to achieve success are not working.

The truth is they never did! In addition to this, the multiple costs of achieving a university degree have increased and there are absolutely no guarantees that simply enrolling onto the degree or even college course of your choice will lead you to employment within that field.

This is unless you have managed to gain at least six to twelve months full time employment related to your chosen degree. You will also be required to have managed to build good working relationships with colleagues and employers within your chosen area of interest that are willing to act as a good reference for you.

They give you the opportunity to take control over your qualification in order to maximise your attainment, so that your qualifications start to work hard for you.

You can achieve this through asking questions and benefitting from the higher emphasis on meeting your development needs than a classroom or lecture theatre can afford. The more you know the smarter and faster you can go.

Many times I hear from job candidates that they would like to go to university or college because the qualification will get them their dream job.

However, when I look at these candidates CVs I see very little. They usually lack any work experience or even voluntary experience.

Why is work and voluntary experience important?

It’s not just what you know or even who you know, it’s how It’s important to demonstrate some basic key can you communicate and prove it that makes the difference. skills such as Teamwork, Organisation, and Initiative within an environment away from the My job on a daily basis is to listen to the requirements protective shell of school. of Employers who are looking to offer good and paid development opportunities to Apprentices. This also So what can you do now to prepare yourself to means I know what other jobs are available for more achieve your employment goals? The first step is experienced candidates. Frequently, it is an enthusiastic to identify what your employment goals are and attitude and willingness to learn that secures the research by finding the people who will give you opportunity for an Apprentice. their honest opinion. Be brave and ask how to apply for a paid job with them and what they look for from Employers are not looking for someone who just prospective applicants. If they have no jobs available wants any job going or views an Apprenticeship as then ask them to refer you to someone who may be a stop gap before they move on elsewhere to what able to help and keep you in mind. they and their older peers may consider a “proper job”. Apprenticeships are much more than that. Joel Matsiko is an Employer Engagement Executive who Apprenticeships are the opportunity to develop both specialises in apprenticeship recruitment and placement your technical and soft skills with the support of your with employers. employer and apprenticeship provider.

Are you aged 16 – 24 And want to earn as you learn • • •

Salary – Earn minimum wage Ongoing training Upon apprenticeship completion: o Possible job offer and / or o Further education

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Access up to £6,400 in funding towards the cost of the new apprentice / member if staff Free advertisement for your job vacancies Free help with recruitment process

For more information contact Jah on Email: jah@mojatu.com Call: 0115 8457 009 Text: 0794 6303 384

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THE CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF APPRENTICESHIPS The 2016 National Apprenticeship Week (NAW 2016) was held this March to celebrate apprenticeships and the positive impact they have on individuals, businesses and the wider economy.

The key themes for National Apprenticeship Week 2016 are: “An apprenticeship can take you anywhere”, with a particular focus on higher skills to show how young people, entrepreneurs and businesses can “rise to the top” through traineeships and apprenticeships.

Apprenticeships have long been perceived as a

secondary route for young people to take in their education, particularly in comparison to A Levels or university. In 2014/15, some schools and colleges were found not to promote apprenticeships as they favoured university route. Some parents also shared similar thoughts. This was mainly attributed to lack of information on Apprenticeships.

In a research carried out by Northern Advisory Council for Further Education (NACFE) found that as of 2016, these views are changing. This is illustrated in the infographic.

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Improving Relationships with New and Emerging Communities and the Police - By Michael Henry The UK is often seen as a place that can provide safety, shelter and security to those fleeing dangerous environments from their home countries as well as opportunities to improve the quality of their lives. As patterns of migration change and more people are finding themselves in the UK from Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia there is an increasing need for local policing to be responsive to these communities.

Inspector Andy Townsend is responsible for the Hyson Green / Forest Recreation area and he knows it is vital to form relationships with all communities in the area.

Andy says – ‘The difficulty in this area is the dynamic state of the communities, they are constantly changing as people arrive in Nottingham. Some communities are so new, so small that they do not have leaders - not even selfelected leaders. In fact, I am not sure that they understand that they are part of a community’.

Communities Inc’s dialogues to promote cohesion have found that a lack of confidence in the police is fairly common in newly arrived communities, particularly where people have suffered police brutality in their own countries. This needs to be addressed to ensure local policing meets the needs of all communities.

For information on the work Communities Inc is doing to build trust and relationships in communities, please contact Michael Henry on 0115 964 8227 or email michael@communitiesinc.org.uk

A recent dialogue – held in Hyson Green.

Exploring and Improving BME Policing Experiences - By Abdoulie Jah

The Second Annual Conference on BME policing in Nottinghamshire was held at the Afro Caribbean National Artistic Centre (ACNA Centre) on 19th March. It sought to identify the success which has been achieved upon implementation of the 2013 report recommendations.

The conference was organised by the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s BME Steering Group in order to update participants on current progress. It also sought to provide an opportunity to obtain both a community and stakeholders’ response to the work completed.

Following the research carried out in 2013, a number of proposals were identified which would help police to engage better with BME communities and other stakeholders. This report summarised the findings of a report carried out by Professor Cecil Wright and her research team, which outlined 30 recommendations for change. The Nottinghamshire PCC Paddy Tipping agreed to review and implement the recommendations.

These recommendations sought to improved BME victim satisfaction, increase BME representation within

the police force, improve BME proportionality with stop search and help in development of an effective BME community and IAG engagement.

The conference was informed that progress had been made in respect to the recommendations and actions continue to be taken towards meeting BME community expectations. However, weaknesses were identified in representations of BME within the police force but the attendees were assured that this is an ongoing process.

The conference was facilitated by the chair of NPCC’s BME Steering Group, Professor Cecile Wright. Rt. Hon Keith Vaz MP and the PCC Paddy Tipping attended the conference. The conference addressed issues relating to Stop and Search, Youth and Engagement, Hate Crime, Islamaphobia and Domestic abuse.

Other speakers included Sajid Mohammed, Superintendent Paul Barrows, Jackie Lockhart of Chat’Bout, Maxine Robinson of National Catholic Safeguarding Commission and Superintendent Robyn Williams of Metropolitan Police.

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MARKET IN EAST MIDLANDS Photo: International Women’s Day

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Hundreds of women from across the East Midlands attended seminars in Leicester last month, on a diverse range of subjects such as domestic violence, forced marriage and extremism to mark International Women’s Day.

International Women’s Day provides an ideal opportunity to raise awareness of the role women play in tackling radicalisation in the UK and to highlight the work of the Prevent Tragedies campaign. Women from Leicester, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire came to Spinney Hill to hear presentations on a wide range of issues such as extremist ideology, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, hate crime, domestic abuse, mental health and tackling terrorism.

Sameena Ali was one of the 150 women who came to the event. She was Chair of the Muslim Women’s Forum in Nottingham for four years and worked with Nottinghamshire Police to set up Prevent. She said; “Days like this are really needed. Having worked in this field, I know a lot about it but everyone’s needs are different and people will take something different from today but we can all learn more.

It’s important that the women who are here go out and tell others to spread the message into the community.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner from The Metropolitan Police, Helen Ball, the Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, gave a presentation on the important part women play in protecting their families before it is too late. She showed the audience a short film which focused on three Syrian refugee mothers speaking directly to mothers in the UK about the realities of life in Syria and asking why any mother would want to take their family to live in a war zone.

“Many Muslim women don’t know their rights, they need Islamic awareness training so that they know what is part of Islam and what isn’t. Female genital mutilation does not exist in Pakistan. There is a difference between culture and religion, but if things are misinterpreted people believe the ideology. If women know their true rights they will be empowered.”

DAC Ball said; “We know that mothers are often the ones in a family who are most likely to spot signs and notice changes in their children’s behaviour. They are also more likely to be able to persuade their children not to travel. I want to thank all those women who attended today’s event for continuing to work with us to safeguard our young people and help them make positive choices about their lives.”

Deputy Chief Constable, Sue Fish from Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Nottinghamshire Police is extremely proud to be part of this fantastic regional event in celebration of International Women’s Day. It is testament to our continued engagement with our local communities that we have received such outstanding support from ladies across the East Midlands.

“Our event today aims to highlight the vital role women play in driving social change as well as the importance of working with our partners to promote issues which affect women from all walks of life.”

Nottingham African Women Network The Nottingham African Women Network has been established to engage, support and empower African girls and women in the region.

For more details and to join, or Partner with us, contact Valentine Nkoyo val@gaindiaspora.co.uk T:01158457009 | M: 07794372214 167 Alfreton Road, NG7 3JR www.gaindiaspora.co.uk

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Mt Zion Millennium City Church: 4th Annual Black History & Cultural Event Mt Zion Millennium City Church in Bobbersmill, Nottingham held its 4th Annual Black History & Cultural event in November 2015. The event brought together high profile speakers and panellists, including Roger Henry, Real United, Desmond Jaddoo, Councillor Merlita Bryan, and Pitman Browne.

Pitman Browne, a poet, author and performer praised the event saying, “This year’s event should be a cracker based on last year’s, which I thoroughly enjoyed”.

The events included educational Success Workshop, by Professor Chris Imafidon, known as the Father of Britain’s Brainiest children - amongst many of his children’s achievements, his twins entered the Guinness book of world records, when they passed their A Level Maths at the age of 7. Other speakers and panellists included Professor Cecile Wright, Councillor Leslie Ayoola, Professor Chris Imafidon, Rose Thompson and Michaela Burrell.

Senior Pastor, Trevor Anderson said, “We are delighted to host another Black History event this year and for the people who have supported and participated in the event over the years. The event, especially this year, highlights some of the issues in the community and the positive actions that can and are being taken to make a difference in our community. Black history is very important especially for the younger generation - may it long continue.”

Read full article at www.mojatu.com or visit www.millenniumcity.co.uk for more information about the church.

Visit us at Mt Zion Millennium City Church, Churchfield Lane, Bobbersmill, Nottingham, NG7 5QS.

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GAIN DIASPORA NOTTINGHAM: AFRICAN COMMUNITIES INVITED TO JOIN THE NETWORK Africans in Nottinghamshire have been called upon to join the newly established African Network. This organisation will provide enhanced networking and partnerships among the many African groups, businesses, organisations and individuals in the region.

Global African Integration Network (GAIN) Diaspora was established by eight local African organisations to increase partnership and networking opportunities. GAIN came to be after many African-led organisations found that they shared common problems of limited capacity, knowledge and networking opportunities.

Research carried out by various groups have also found that most individuals are in the dark about what is happening in their community. There was also a common consensus that there are many competent organisations doing great work but they barely work together, network or partner in their work which weakens the ability of Africans in the Diaspora.

GAIN Diaspora was established to meet these needs by bringing together Africans by supporting the existing organisations and supporting upcoming African led groups. It will also offer advice, support, training and other practical services to Africans in Nottinghamshire and African-led groups and organisations in the region.

The key aim of GAIN is to bring African organisations together to have one voice, support them to access practical information and services. It will also support and partner in community events and foster partnerships with different stakeholders to helps these groups to build their capacity, continuity and sustainability.

This will be achieved through GAIN Diaspora Services and activities which will include, but not be limited to: 

Support integration, networking and partnerships among African organisations and individuals in Nottinghamshire

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Provision of information, advice and signposting services to these groups and individuals

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Fostering and promoting culture of partnerships, inter-trade and interactions

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Promote actions, processes and factors that encourage social inclusion

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Building the capacity of individuals and organisations through provision of training, mentoring, business development and capacity building

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Encouraging enterprise and skills development as a means of overcoming poverty, exclusion and limited competitiveness

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Offering advocacy and support services on behalf of these organisations and their members

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Developing a common database and communication tool to help better information and knowledge acquisition, sharing and usage

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Creating infrastructure to organise events and activities, support partnerships development and community

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Developing strategies and models to support women and girls empowerment programmes

GAIN Diaspora will operate with two main strands. First is the Nottingham African Women Network, which will deliver girls and women empowerment programmes and GAIN Support which will focus on all other areas of GAIN’s organisational development and partnership support processes.

For more information, to join or partner with GAIN Diaspora, and for details on the upcoming launch date, contact GAIN Diaspora Team on:

General: 07946303384 Women: 07794372214 Information: 01158457009

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SOMALIA: Education and Peacebuilding - By Dr Tejendra Pherali On the afternoon of 1st Nov, we were having lunch in a Yemeni restaurant in Hargeisa, Somaliland when I heard the news about deadly attack in Mogadishu that morning.

The Sahafi hotel in Mogadishu was stormed

by Al-Shabab militants, killing 15 people including a Member of Parliament and Somali general who had led the military campaign that drove Al-Shabab out of Mogadishu in 2011.

When my colleague Abdi Zenebe from the University of Hargeisa received a call, it did not take me long to realise that the person on the other side was asking about me. It was my wife who had been terrified by the news and confused about whether I had travelled to Mogadishu or Hargeisa.

My UK mobile network would not work in Somaliland and I had not yet managed to obtain a local SIM card or perhaps, I had not prioritised it. I can empathise with the stress that is caused on families of individuals who work in conflict-affected or other humanitarian situations. For some, career choices in challenging situations are serendipitous whereas for others, these are professional adventures. It is probably a combination of both in my case.

model of peacebuilding and participatory democracy in Somaliland. One of my personal research interests has also been to explore how Somaliland navigates through indigenous structures of governance to advance aspirational modernisation in Somaliland.

The political parties are constitutionally barred from adopting an explicit clan-based or religious ideology but in reality, the source of support for these parties essentially stems from their respective clans and sub-clans.

While Somaliland has successfully worked with its bicameral presidential system in which the Guurti, the upper House of Elders is represented by 82 senior members of various clans and the House of Representative of the same size, the current challenges are primarily concerned with the lack of basic services - including, education, health, water, food and the infrastructure.

What was extraordinary to see during the initial meetings in which I participated in Hargeisa was the enormity of self-pride and aspirations among the people from all walks of life for social and economic development in Somaliland.

The meeting with the university’s president and vicepresident was so encouraging that they did not just highlight what had been achieved in the Somaliland’s only public university but also were very honest about the areas where improvement was needed.

This news came to us in the middle of our conversation about how Somaliland had maintained peace and stability since its declaration of independence from Somalia in 1991 while the Southern state continues to be violent.

UCL Institute of Education’s new research project in partnership with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) at University of Hargeisa and University of York involves research into the role of education in promoting peace, political stability and development in the Somali region.

The project employs a multi-method approach to curriculum development, which combines a rigorous review of evidence, empirical study in the Somali region and multi-stakeholder consultation to inform the curriculum design process and pedagogy of an academic course on education and peacebuilding.

John Paul Lederach’s theory on peacebuilding draws significantly on political processes of the hybrid

Dr Tejendra Pherali second from the left When the senior management of an academic institution explicitly reveals their fundamental weaknesses at their first meeting with a foreign partner, it clearly indicates their desperation and genuine commitment to effect a real change in the institution.

This is very unlike some of the other developing countries where I have experienced rudimentary or unenthusiastically dormant academic entrepreneurship.

Nottingham connected The academic team in the IPCS, Hargeisa was incredibly passionate about their work and very proud of the fact that their graduates included the leaders of the major political parties as well as ministers of the current cabinet. I really hope that my first impression remains linear throughout the project, creating a real opportunity for mutual learning and academic innovations within the IPCS and beyond.

This made me think of what American anthropologist James Ferguson said about his frustration towards failed development in Africa. Ferguson (2006: 191-192) notes: Today, anthropologists in Africa tend to be asked not “What can you do for us” (that time-honored question) but rather: “How can I get out of this place?” Not progress, then, but regress.

I would like to think, perhaps, the tip of the Horn of Africa is a different scenario all together. I felt that there was still a strong sense of hope as the people here were passionately talking about African philosophy and indigenous models of democratic practice.

Later that afternoon, we visited the Hargeisa Cultural Centre, a fascinating place that seemed to be playing a prominent role in reviving and reconstructing Somaliland identity and cultural traditions.

When we arrived at the centre, we were welcomed by Ibrahim who gave us a tour. Ibrahim was born two days before the military dictator Siad Barre’s army callously bombed Hargeisa in 1988. His eyes were filled with tears when he described how his mother had to painfully flee to Ethiopia with a newborn baby in her arms. Ibrahim’s father was so traumatised that he would still refuse to return to Hargeisa after these many years.

Designed in a traditional Somali style and constructed beautifully with local materials is the drama theatre in the cultural centre. Its walls are covered by Somali blankets and the spectators’ arena is nicely designed to face the stage that lies with some musical instruments in the corner.

On the wall behind the seats, it read ‘culture is a basic right’.

There were also a few hundred audiocassettes of classic Somali songs, which Ibrahim mentioned were being digitized for preservation.

On the way back from the theatre, we saw a dozen children sitting on the stage of the open theatre while the two elders sitting opposite them were reciting the script for their forthcoming play. Abdi explained, ‘Somaliland is traditionally an oral society. Reciting poetry; telling stories and memorising proverbs with moral lessons is an integral part of this society.’

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The cultural centre served both political and social purposes by preserving the traditional culture as well as cultivating national identity of Somaliland as a distinctive, stable and culturally prospering nation.

A well-resourced library in the Centre housed a good amount of publications about Somaliland.

When we returned to Abdi’s car which was parked outside the Centre, I noticed that he had left his laptop openly on the front seat. I thought I could not leave my laptop visibly like that in my car in the UK. I asked myself, ‘Is Hargeisa safer than London?’

The security system seems to be surprisingly robust in Hargeisa where community policing reportedly provides approximately 60-70 percent of security related intelligence to national security. The state takes the matter of public security austerely as it is strictly linked with Somaliland’s commitment to deliver peace and stable democracy as well as its diplomatic ordeal to disassociate from the state failure in Somalia.

Perhaps, the UK Independent Party Leader, Nigel Farage has a point in vocally supporting Somaliland for its membership in the Commonwealth to reward its success with peace in the last 25 years.

However, the art gallery in the Centre also revealed the painful side of Somaliland where we saw thoughtprovoking paintings by some young artists. These artistic representations incorporated the themes of politics, corruption and forced migration faced by Somali society.

As the entire Western Europe is engaged in a debate and challenges about the ‘refugee crisis’, the excruciating misery of the loss of family members in the dreadful journeys to Europe and persecution of human smugglers were very powerfully depicted in these paintings. In one of the paintings by a young artist named Hanad, a Somalilander sets off for a new life in Europe but is kidnapped en route by the smuggler who demands a ransom for her release. The mother, back home in Somaliland, who is portrayed as cooking meals for the family is devastated by the news and screams in agony.

In a different painting by the same artist, the cruelty of human smugglers in an overcrowded boat was so vividly portrayed. The scene displayed the horror of humanitarian disaster as well as deprivation, disparities and desperation that led to triviality of human lives.

One can easily see the obvious but also feel agitated by what is driving these series of events.

With these incredible pieces of art, the cultural Centre represented an interesting blend of national pride and social challenges that characterized Somaliland. The involvement of youth in production of the atmosphere of the Centre and its social and cultural activities indicated an important aspect of learning and revival of Somali Culture. However, it is certainly a limited representation of Somaliland and not at all the entirety

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My few days in Somaliland have thrown me into a paradoxical understanding of the aspiring self-declared republic that is surrounded by complex protracted crises but is successfully defending peace and stability for the last 25 years.

On the one hand, its clan-based social structure works as a source of stability and successful conflict management and most importantly, as an impenetrable shield against Al-Shabab’s influence.

On the other hand, the very system, quite understandably, seems to be suspicious about over excitement for foreign investment and westernised economic development. The anxiety of the loss of

stability as well as social and cultural erosion that may follow the stimulated economic liberalisation faces the reality of persisted stagnation in providing basic services such as food, water, education, health and the infrastructure to Somalilanders.

For us, it is the question of education – what is the role of education in transforming Somali society? How can we create positive learning opportunities for Somali youth to effectively facilitate their participation in democracy, peacebuilding, and social transformation?

Dr Pherali is Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development at UCL Institute of Education.

He teaches a course on Education, Conflict and Fragility and coordinates the Network for Research in Education, Conflict and Emergencies. Email: t.pherali@ioe.ac.uk

Turning migrants into philanthropists by investing in our communities Given immigrants’ growing numbers and their expanding role in the economic, social, and cultural life of nations across the globe, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) has developed a toolkit that provides grant makers with opportunities to support immigrants through learning, networking and collaboration.

Before migrants can become philanthropists, they need to be settled and in a position to give to their countries of origin. This is where philanthropy in the host country comes in. Successful integration of immigrants is necessary to make those in the diaspora philanthropists. This is visible among the early twentieth century US philanthropists who were themselves immigrants, such as Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant, who went on to found nearly 1,700 public libraries.

GCIR seeks to move the philanthropic field to advance the contributions and address the needs of the world’s growing and increasingly diverse immigrant and refugee populations.

GCIR has developed an Immigrant Integration Framework, which is among the key philanthropic efforts to support immigrants. The tool can be used by organisations, whether they have immigrant specific funding initiatives or wish to incorporate the immigrant and refugee dimension into their core grant making programs.

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This suggests that: ‘… foundations can consider a range of grant making strategies depending on their funding approaches, issue priorities, geographic focus, and goals. By incorporating immigrants into their grant making priorities, they can draw upon myriad strategies for community building and social change that philanthropy has long supported. These strategies include but are not limited to: direct services, capacity building, community outreach and education, leadership development, organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, research, policy analysis, communications, media, and litigation.

In summary, migration is one of the most effective tools for reducing global poverty. Offering migrants legal status, protection of their rights, ability and opportunity to engage, become productive and to prosper is fundamental in transforming them to philanthropists. Philanthropists should support this cause proactively to increase the number of philanthropists for future generations.

This toolkit is available for viewing, download and usage online at www.Mojatu.com/CGI_Toolkit

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Migration: The oldest and still best tool in the anti-poverty arsenal - By Timothy Ogden

The case for migration as an effective tool to combat poverty is more than 100,000 years old – and has yet to be contradicted. Migration is what early human hunter-gatherers did to survive. Migration took them from Africa into the rest of the world. Migration led them to the river valleys of Mesopotamia and South Asia. Further migration to these fertile valleys generated societies. It is not overstating the case to say that migration created civilization. And when early civilizations collapsed under pressure from war, disease or famine, it was migration to other societies that kept knowledge from being lost and allowed development to continue.

The history of humankind is a history of migration.

Being removed from that history by large spans of time makes it easy for us to think of this history as large, coordinated movements of people. But it is better understood as the stories of individuals and families making decisions to move to find a better life.

The dramatic declines in absolute poverty in the last 50 years are primarily the result of families migrating from rural areas to cities, in China especially but also elsewhere. Among economists, rural-to-urban migration is known as the foundation of development: people can be much more productive in urban environments than in rural ones. More productive people means more wealth and less poverty for everyone. It is true that the conditions for the poor in many developing world cities are abysmal. But they were also abysmal in New York, London and Paris when those cities absorbed hundreds of thousands of migrants from rural areas seeking a better life. It was the migrants’ increased productivity that created the wealth to improve those cities. Healthy, livable cities don’t emerge despite migrants but because of them.

The wealth generated by migrants to cities also created the fortunes of the owners of the businesses that employed them: Rockefeller, Ford, Wellcome, Nobel, Bosch. In other words, the history of foundations is a history of migrants. And the future of institutional philanthropy is built on migrants as well: the wealth of Ambani and Mittal (owners of factories driven by urban workers), Ibrahim (cellular networks require dense populations to begin), Kamprad (dense housing) and Zuckerberg (dense population of tech talent) is all built on migration.

Despite this, philanthropy has largely ignored – or even worked against – people migrating to escape

poverty. It is far more common to find philanthropic programmes aiming to prevent families from leaving their rural farms and migrating to cities than it is to find programmes that enable them to do so. Institutional philanthropy has, unfortunately, not looked to the history of humanity’s escape from poverty for lessons on how to enable more to escape it.

Migration is the most successful anti-poverty strategy for families in every era and every region of the world.

If we accept that, a world of possibilities for battling poverty opens up. And yet, for some reason, the idea of allowing people to escape from poverty by moving, particularly if that means moving across national borders, seems to make us afraid.

It is true that migration has sometimes destroyed nations and cultures. But the cases where it has happened have something in common: they are migrations where relatively wealthy people invaded the territory of poorer ones (see colonialism). I can find no examples of migrants from poor countries harming the long-term wellbeing of richer countries since the fall of Rome – even though every wave of global migration from poorer countries to richer ones has been forecast to do so.

Institutional philanthropy around the world needs to acknowledge the central role that migration plays in reducing poverty (and creating philanthropic wealth). Migration is the greatest tool in the antipoverty arsenal. It’s time for philanthropy to put that tool to use.

Timothy Ogden is the managing director of the Financial Access Initiative at NYU-Wagner and a contributing editor to Alliance Magazine and can be contacted by email on timothy.ogden@nyu.edu.

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MOJATU MAGAZINE LAUNCHED IN THE GAMBIA! - By Leikeisha Walters In February 2016, Mojatu made mojatu another mileage with the launch of Mojatu Gambia magazine, the first in West Africa and the third in African continent. The magazine was launched during the International conference organised

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Mojatu team travelled to The Gambia where they worked with local volunteers in the country to organise and hold an international conference focusing on women’s empowerment, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Child Marriage and Youth Development. The Mojatu Gambia magazine was also launched during this conference.

In attendance were key figures including representatives from The Gambian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the Vice President’s Office and the National Youth Council.

Key Gambian speaker Fatoumata Touray said, “FGM continues to affect the lives of many women and girls globally. To eliminate FGM and support survivors, we need to learn from one another”.

Sight-Tech Chairperson Mariama Touray said that “Social, economic and health consequences of child marriage are devastating for young girls and leads many women to lead lives in poverty and suffering. Many child brides are expected to have their own children before the age of 18 leading to serious health consequences for young mothers because their bodies are not mature enough to cope with childbearing, prolonged labour and the lifelong psychological problems, not to mention the impact of FGM. Cases of maternal mortality are also higher in this age group”.

Mr Abdoulie Jah the director of STF will be the managing editor of Mojatu Gambia. Mr Jah said that “Mojatu Gambia has been launched in response to demand from local people and businesses in the Gambia who are struggling to reach the customers and service users on their doorstep. The brand has been adopted because of its unique approach in supporting grassroots groups and sustenance of professional and positive messages”.

“Having run a successful organisations and consistently working with local groups in tackling FGM, I find it hard to get true reflection of what is happening in the community and have the message reach a hyperlocal audience. Mojatu magazines have succeeded in other countries and cities. We believe Mojatu Gambia will deliver advertiser’s message straight to customer’s

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homes, train local people and change the community for the better”. Said Mr Jah. Valentine Nkoyo, the managing director of Mojatu magazines and director of Mojatu Foundation notes that, launching a Mojatu Gambia is an important step for supporting education, training, health, gender equality information and media, girls and women”.

Dr Boly Barry, who is from Burkina Faso and supports Mojatu Foundation develop the strategy for entry into West Africa thanked all involved and noted that this is a proud day for all Africans. “We thank the Hon. Omar Sey and all those who have supported Mojatu and other partners in this process. Let us use Mojatu Magazine and the online, mobile, print and audio tools to strengthen peace and positive actions throughout Africa and beyond”.

Other than in the UK, Mojatu Magazines have presence in Kenya and Somaliland. The expansion is in line with the increasing demand for quality and authentic African voices and desire for businesses and organisations to access African market within and outside the continent.

Mrs Mariama Touray, Chairperson of STF outlined the benefits the Mojatu magazine in Gambia will bring.

She said, “The magazine will promote better practices, shared learning and more collaboration in our work.

This will help in the development and sustenance of healthy, informed and knowledgeable communities. As Africans, we are very proud of this huge step in our work of empowering women and supporting education and skills development”.

Over the last three years, Mojatu Magazines have developed a unique model of working with local women, girls and younger people in launching and running local Mojatu magazines.

Veronica Barnes, Director of Blue Mountain Women (BMW) in Nottingham, who volunteered to travel to the Gambia noted that “This approach is important in alleviating poverty and giving people voices. Mojatu do not just publish and distribute the magazines but instead trains and supports local people to have ownership in what is said and written about them”.

Mojatu Gambia will train local people to source articles which maintain positive and inspirational themes with tips, ideas and partnership opportunities.

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Following our visit and End FGM conference in The Gambia in February 2016, we seek donations for our next trip this August to provide FGM Survivor with a range of items to support better quality life.

For more information and to arrange collections please contact: Abdoulie Jah E: jah@mojatu.com | T: 07946303384 Rob Graham E: rob@mojatu.com | T: 07957817178

FGM Survivors pack (List of Container items for The Gambia) Thermometers Small First Aid Box Sanitary Pads Bandages Liquid Soap (alcohol free) Toothbrush & Toothpaste Body lotion Women’s Clothes Women’s Shoes Towels Beddings Mosquito nets Sewing Machines

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2 End FGM International Conference Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 13th – 15th Sep 2016 Visit www.mojatufoundation.org/fgmconf for more details

Opportunities available for Sponsorship, Partnership and for Exhibitors.

Key Reasons to join us • High quality event attracting high level attendance • Meet and engage with local groups tackling FGM within Africa • Extensive networking opportunities with Africa’s First ladies, Government officials, Global academic, legal, health, charity leaders and other professionals

• Opportunity to influence decision makers in sessions, discussions and actions • Extremely targeted audience of 200 senior International FGM specialists • Experience and discover other cultures • Chance to visit rare tourist sites of global interest in Burkina Faso

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CHARLOTTE-LOUISE BRAILSFORD:

To Donate Or hire Charlotte to perform, Get In Touch Via: Website: www charlottebrailsford.com Email: info@charlottebrailsford.com Facebook:Charlotte Brailsford Twitter: @CharlotteBrail1 Instagram: Charlotte_Brailsford

From Nottingham to New York

17 Year old Musical Theatre Performer and student, Charlotte-Louise Brailsford of St Ann’s/ Mapperley requires £30,000 to study at The American Musical & Dramatic Academy in New York City and Los Angeles from October 2016.

In a community where many black youth are often looked down on, opportunities for performing in particular were little.

Growing up had some challenges like most young people living with single parents.

However, Charlotte was always remained passionate about performing from a very young age and kept a close eye on upcoming opportunities. This kept her focused throughout her school years where as a lot of young people she grew up with were happy to sacrifice their inspirations by turn to the streets.

Asked what inspires her, Charlotte said “Growing up I have learnt that the good things in life don’t come easy and that you have to work hard to achieve anything of worth. I want to inspire other kids from the streets to make their dreams a reality too”.

Charlotte has always dreamed to pursue a career as a leading lady on London’s West End. However, she knew that she had to push her limits to make her dreams come true of getting into a good drama school because of what believed in, despite of her background. In which, Nottingham Teenager Charlotte turned to the states for her first choice drama school and within days was offered a place to study at The American Musical Dramatic Academy of New York City and Los Angeles for four years.

“I could have chosen to study somewhere cheaper; somewhere nearer to home, yet why should I settle for something which is less than my dreams?”

To accomplish this dream, Charlotte must raise £30,000 for each year of her study’s and is willing to work as hard as she can to make this happen. With her fundraising logo and hashtag “Help Charlotte B get to NYC” or #CharlotteBNYC, she has already started to fundraising. Individuals and organisations have started contributing towards supporting Charlotte towards meeting this goal.

Her college, New College Nottingham Clarendon has helped Charlotte by using her talents to show Nottingham that she needs the your help to fund for her four year Musical Theatre degree course in New York and Los Angeles.

Mojatu is supporting Charlotte with design of her website, http://charlottebrailsford. com/ and promoting her fund raising campaign.

Charlotte uses her art to raise awareness of causes close to her heart- previously working with The Anne Frank Foundation and now the Mojatu Foundation to raise awareness of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other organisations challenging prejudice and equality.

Charlotte has featured in various musicals from Les Miserables to Joseph and The Technicolor Dreamcoat as well as being a part of different film and dance productions across Nottingham. She landed the lead role of “Anne” in the Atlas Av film company advert “The Time Travelling Gardener” and in July 2015, she made her debut as “Dorothy” The Nottingham Lakeside Arts production of “The Wiz”, directed by Martin Berry. She also won the Nottingham “Sing City” competition November 2015 with The Nottingham Music Hub at The Royal Concert Hall.

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RISING FROM ASHES COMES TO NOTTINGHAM BROADWAY - By Laura Blackie

Rising from Ashes, a feature length documentary about two worlds colliding when cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda to help a group of struggling genocide survivors pursue their dream of a national team, was recently screened in Nottingham’s Broadway cinema.

The film was followed by a Q&A session with guest speakers Eric Murangwa, survivor and founder of Football for Hope Peace and Unity, and Jeremy Ford, the marketing and communications officer at Team Rwanda UK.

The screening was organised by the Rwandan Stories of Change Project at the University of Nottingham to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

The team members are Nicki Hitchcott, Stephen Joseph and Laura Blackie. The screening was organised.

Eric is a former international football player from Rwanda and a survivor of the 1994 genocide. Eric lost 35 members of his family. It was Eric’s former team members who risked their lives to keep him safe. Understanding the power sport can have in nurturing friendship and commitment between people, Eric formed “Football for Hope Peace and Unity” in 2010 – which aims to promote peace and reconciliation in Rwanda and in the UK.

In April 1994, around a million Rwandan people were

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Exhibition at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham Borrowed Land is an exhibition by Roy Pickering who has been working on a series of paintings focused on the surrounding landscape of Sherwood Forest.

Borrowed Land seeks to explore questions of land ownership, the passage of time and the fragility of landscape.

This work reveals Roy’s personal response to the transformative effects of human intervention on nature.

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PROVEN WAYS TO BOOST YOUR METABOLISM Metabolism is the term for all the chemical reactions in your body. These chemical reactions keep your body alive and functioning. However, the word metabolism is often used interchangeably with metabolic rate, or the amount of calories you burn.

to heat it up to body temperature. Studies show that drinking water a half an hour before you eat can help you eat less. One study of overweight adults found that those who drank half a litre of water before their meals lost 44% more weight than those who didn’t.

The higher your metabolism, the more calories you burn and the easier it is to lose weight and keep it off. Having a high metabolism can also increase your energy levels. By making small lifestyle changes using these 10 tips you can increase your metabolism and make yourself healthier.

Bottom Line: Water can help you lose weight and keep it off. It increases your metabolism and helps fill you up before meals.

1. Eat Protein at Every Meal Eating food can increase your metabolism for a few hours. This is called the thermic effect of food (TEF). It’s caused by the extra calories required to digest, absorb and process the nutrients in your meal. Of all the food groups, protein is best for boosting your metabolism. It increases your metabolic rate by 15–30%, compared to 5–10% for carbs and 0–3% for fats. Eating protein can help to prevent overeating; a recent study shows that you’ll consume 441 fewer calories per day if protein accounts for 30% of your diet.

Bottom Line: Eating more protein can boost your metabolism so that you burn more calories. Protein helps you feel fuller for longer, so you’ll eat less.

2. Drink More Cold Water People who drink water instead of sugary drinks are more successful at losing weight and keeping it off.

This is because sugary drinks contain calories, so replacing them with water automatically reduces your calorie intake. Drinking water may also speed up your metabolism temporarily. Drinking 17 oz (0.5 litres) of water increases resting metabolism by 10–30% for about an hour. This calorie-burning effect may be even greater if you drink cold water, as your body uses energy

3. Do a High-Intensity Workout High-intensity interval training (HIIT) involves quick and very intense bursts of activity. It can help you burn more fat by increasing your metabolic rate, even after your workout has finished. This effect is believed to be greater for HIIT than for other types of exercise. One study in overweight young men found that 12 weeks of high-intensity exercise reduced fat mass by 4.4 lbs (2 kg) and belly fat by 17%.

Bottom Line: By varying your exercise routine and adding in a few high-intensity workouts can boost your metabolism and help you burn fat.

4. Lift Heavy Things Muscle is more metabolically active than fat, and building muscle can help increase your metabolism.

This means you will burn more calories each day, even at rest. Lifting weights will also help you retain muscle and combat the drop in metabolism that can occur during weight loss. In one study, 48 overweight women were placed on a diet of 800 calories per day, along with either no exercise, aerobic exercise or resistance training. After the diet, the women who did the resistance training maintained their muscle mass, metabolism and strength. The others lost weight, but also lost muscle mass and experienced a decrease in metabolism, showing heavy lifting also leads to loss of weight.

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Bottom Line: Lifting weights is important for building and retaining muscle. Higher amounts of muscle will result in a higher metabolism.

Bottom Line: Eating spicy food could be beneficial for boosting your metabolism and helping you maintain a healthy weight.

5. Stand Up More

8. Get Some Rest

Sitting too much is bad for your health. Some health commentators have even dubbed it “the new smoking.”

This is partly because long periods of sitting burns fewer calories and can lead to weight gain. In fact, compared with sitting, an afternoon of standing up at work can burn an extra 174 calories.

Sleep deprivation has also been linked with increased blood sugar levels and insulin resistance, which are both linked to a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. It’s also been shown to boost the hunger hormone ghrelin, and decrease the fullness hormone leptin. This could explain why many people who are sleep deprived feel hungry and struggle to lose weight and keep it off.

Bottom Line: Sitting for a long time burns few calories and is bad for your health. Try to stand up regularly to break up the length of time you spend sitting down or invest in a standing desk.

6. Drink Green Tea Green tea and oolong tea have been shown to increase metabolism by 4–5% in some people. These teas help convert some of the fat stored in your body into free fatty acids, which may increase fat burning by 10–17%.

As they are low in calories, drinking these teas may be good for both weight loss and weight maintenance.

It’s thought their metabolism-boosting properties may help prevent the dreaded weight loss plateau that occurs due to a decrease in metabolism.

Bottom Line: Drinking green tea or oolong tea can increase your metabolism. These teas may also help you lose weight and keep it off.

7. Eat Spicy Foods Peppers contain capsaicin, a substance that can boost your metabolism. However, many people can’t tolerate these spices at the doses required to have a significant effect. One study of capsaicin, at acceptable doses, predicted that eating peppers would burn around 10 additional calories per meal. The effects of adding spices to your food may be quite small, however it may be useful when combined with other metabolismboosting strategies.

Bottom Line: Lack of sleep can decrease the amount of calories you burn, change the way you process sugar and disrupt your appetite-regulating hormones.

9. Drink Coffee Studies have shown that the caffeine in coffee can boost metabolism by 3–11%. Like green tea, it also promotes fat burning and can contribute to maintaining a healthy weight. However, this seems to affect lean people more.

In one study, coffee increased fat burning by 29% for lean women, but only 10% for obese women.

Bottom Line: Drinking coffee can significantly increase your metabolism and help you lose weight.

10. Use Coconut Oil for Cooking Unlike other saturated fats, coconut oil contains a lot of medium-chain fats. Medium-chain fats can increase your metabolism more than the long-chain fats found in foods like butter. In one study, researchers found that medium-chain fats increased metabolism by 12%, compared to long-chain fats, which raised it by just 4%. Due to the unique fatty acid profile of coconut oil, replacing some of your other cooking fats with it may have modest benefits for weight loss.

Bottom Line: Replacing other cooking fats with coconut oil may help boost your metabolism slightly.

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THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES: THE DANGER OF FURTHER EDUCATION

By Alison Scott

Once upon a time, in a place not far from here, lived many emperors, each in their own ivory tower. A King Emperor ruled over them all, and one of his greatest pleasures was to meddle. He delighted in thinking up new tasks for the lowly emperors to perform. Unfortunately the lowly emperors felt they had to obey, until one day - a day when everything changed.

King Emperor had thought up his best meddlesome plan yet. ‘I know’, he thought, I shall keep my lowly emperors very busy by telling them they must ensure that all the workers in their ivory towers must do their work perfectly. To be good will no longer be good enough, and to be less than good will cause great sorrow for these workers who have failed - and great stress for their emperor!’

The lowly emperors, after receiving this new edict, asked a very sensible question. ‘But how, ‘ they asked,’ will we know whether our workers are perfect or not?

Their work is very complex. They work with people of varying abilities who come from all parts of this kingdom and beyond. This means they have developed many different ways of working. How can we possibly judge the quality of this specialised work - especially as we emperors know nothing about it?’

‘That’s simple!’ replied the King Emperor. ‘I have designed a simple set of 4 numbers: 1=perfect, 2=good (but not good enough), 3 = must improve (or else) and 4= most deplorable indeed. You will observe your workers, each and every one of them, and grade them with one of these numbers. You will know when to give a grade 1 because it is instinctive - you will just know (do not press me further on this), and a grade 2 is when you are not too sure if it is a 1 or not. Grades 3 and 4 are very useful if you want to reduce worker numbers because these grades will trigger very particular actions.’

‘What sort of actions?’ the emperors nervously asked, dreading the reply.

‘Well, a grade 3 or 4 will trigger the Performance Management game. This game involves an activity called Support and Development. After this, the grade 3 and 4 workers are observed again. If another lowly grade is received then they will be in great trouble, for clearly they are unlikely to become the perfect workers you must now employ. I leave it to you to decide whether to give them another chance in the game or to dispose of them more quickly.

‘Take note, for this Performance Management game has very high stakes! I feel sure that all your workers will be energised and motivated to be perfect, for they will not want the shame and degradation attached to losing. In short, this is a brilliant improvement strategy!

Moreover, as an added incentive to you all, those ivory towers with many perfect workers will receive the ultimate accolade: your tower will be proclaimed throughout the kingdom and beyond as Outstanding!’

The emperors were very miserable on hearing this dismal news, and discussed with each other how they could possibly present this to their workers in a favourable light. ‘Truly,’ bemoaned one, ‘King Emperor has surely lost the plot this time. The task he has set us is unachievable, and our workers will tell us so.’

Sure enough, back in their respective ivory towers the new missive from on high was greeted with scorn and derision by many workers. The weaker workers resigned on the spot and others followed when the new system gave them lowly grades. Those who could not afford to resign became sad and dispirited, and a few became angry and militant - but never in sufficient numbers to overthrow the system. What was strange was that a surprising number of workers appeared to think the task of reaching perfection was achievable, and spent many hours honing perfect work practices according to many missives designed expressly to show them how.

And how did the emperors cope? A few retired early, some voluntarily but most were pushed to do so by the King Emperor. Soon there became a worrying shortage of good and noble leaders. Many developed great skills in the Performance Management game so that they could dispense of high numbers of workers and be rewarded and acclaimed. These emperors pleased the King Emperor very well, and he suggested they should call themselves Chief Executive Officer Emperors (or CEOs for short). For had they not achieved great efficiencies and savings in their treatment of the workers? And with all the Support and Development

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So successful were these CEOs that they decided to award themselves very high salaries - certainly they deserved these rewards in acknowledgement of their magnificence? Some even managed to justify to themselves the practice of putting more and more of their workers on zero hours’ contracts. Truly, they reasoned, these workers must have a clear vocation that is unsullied by a desire for profit, for why else would they work so hard for so little?

All continued in this way until the day I mentioned - a day not so long ago. It so happened that the King Emperor was visiting one of the very few ivory towers which had received the ultimate accolade of Outstanding. He was presented to various workers and their students (for indeed, these workers were in fact further education teachers). Everyone he met had put on a performance for his benefit, which was bound to enhance the status (and the salary) of the CEO still further - everyone, that is, apart from one teacher. He boldly approached the King Emperor, pushing aside the fawning minions and the self-satisfied CEO. This is what he said: ‘ None of this is real. The lovely buildings, the resources, the polite students and our great success rates. The reality is going on behind closed doors. The difficult work of restoring the motivation of students whose lives have been devastated by previous experiences; the worry when students’ behaviour or absence prevents them from learning - because this is always the teacher’s fault - the increasing expectations that you will know enough to teach more than your specialist subject, the paperwork, the lack of social camaraderie, simply the lack of enjoyment…I could go on, but I think you get the picture. This joyless work is what teaching has become under your ignorant rule. So what are you going to do about it?’

So, how do you think the story ends?

1. Suddenly another worker pushed forward. ‘The issue is not what he’s going to do. It’s up to us!’ He appealed to his fellow workers to join him in his response, but they all went away in a great hurry to write their perfect lesson plans. Within 10 years, ivory towers

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2. Suddenly another worker pushed forward. ‘The issue is not what he’s going to do. It’s up to us!

Follow me!’ And he walked away from the King Emperor, the CEO and the fawning minions, making it his life’s work to be patient, to listen and to inform teachers about the nature of struggle and the power of collective action. Distant rumours of resistance and underground working suddenly made sense to the beleaguered workers, and they developed ways to organise themselves collectively, developing powerful communities of learning for both their students and each other - both inside the ivory towers and beyond.

Alison Scott is a EdD student in FE Skills Policy in England at Centre for International Education Research, School of Education, University of Nottingham. E: alison.scott25@ hotmail.co.uk

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