Articles 2004
Sheikh Yamani Lecture
A transcript of the Special Lecture given by Sheikh Zaki Yamani at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 7th December 2005. Hosted by The Institute of Continuing Professional Development and the CPD Foundation. Introduced by Jonathan Harris CBE.
Why all the fuss?
by Andrew Holmes
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The
learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists."
Eric Hoffer
Organizations have always been concerned about their competitiveness. Taking this seriously has meant ...
It's all about knowledge
by Andrew Holmes
The shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age has transformed working life. As we saw in the introduction, the numbers of people working in industries that require manual dexterity and brute force are already limited and continue to decline. It is unlikely that they will reduce to zero, ...
Are You Ready?
try this questionnaire by Andrew Holmes
It should be clear that the case for lifelong learning is an obvious one with plenty of upside. But how should we respond? What can we do? With the half-life of information reducing year on year we need to be smart at assessing what we need to learn and how we are going to learn it.