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In 1997 the Robert Owen Group launched a co-operative school centred initial teacher training project through the Marches Consortium and in partnership with the University of Gloucester. The scheme rapidly grew and became the largest of its type in the United Kingdom , successfully training over 3,700 post graduates who now work in our schools and colleges with many at senior leadership levels. Alongside this we launched a Master’s level programme for trainers in schools and for former trainees and teachers to access as career progression.
It became clear that the absence of an institute of higher education in the Marches sub region posed a real impediment to developing research, seminal thinking and platonic discourse. We often ignore the valuable infrastructure that comes with a quality centre of higher education. The Directors of the Marches Consortium developed a Robert Owen Learning Academy in Leominster and encouraged many ‘hub’ schools to have satellite post graduate libraries for their ‘clusters’.
This is all now background history but our 1998 creation of “query” as a radical journal of left field thinking has now in 2021 led to the addition of this section to the Marches Hive website. We want to stimulate thinking, discussion and the sharing of relevant news and knowledge.
We called the original 1990’s journal query because our minds turned to the creation in the 1870’s of the Tredegar Medical Aid Society which started life as as ‘Health and Education Fund’. In 1920 Walter Conway , Aneurin Bevan and others formed the radical Query Club as a new development. The Club was a cross between a debating society, a mutual support group , a focus for sharing contemporary knowledge and a body set on advancing radical thinking to address the issues of the day. In those times adult education was very much in cells following on the model of the early Methodist house groups.
We believe the challenges of today in many ways mirror those of one hundred years ago and we do encourage everyone’s to engage with query and to share your thoughts, views, knowledge and understanding so that we can all grow together . Thank you
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Susanne Westhausen – Cooperatives Europe
My name is Susanne Westhausen. I am the CEO of the Danish apex organisation for cooperatives since 2007, and the president of Cooperatives Europe. During that time one of my main interests has been to explore and share the fantastic powers of the cooperative movement...
RISE & THRIVE: SAFINA & AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT PROMISE
In the last two years, the pandemic has strained every aspect of operations for organizations in the social sector. Nonprofit organizations (NGOs) saw drops in funding, higher costs for goods and services, and a simultaneous increase in need in their communities. As...
A citizen energy cooperative at the heart of EU policy making
Community energy is key to action on the climate crisis. It can empower people, boost local economies, and reinvigorate communities. Community-led initiatives play an important part in the transition towards a 100% renewable and just energy future. Success stories of...
MEET JOAN: FROM STAY-AT-HOME MOM TO SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Joan Mbabazi is a 27-year-old woman with a charming and appealing personality. She is a mother to two children and married to a business man who sells green bananas. Before joining Street Business School, Joan was a stay-at-home mother. In February of this...
Driving Sustainable Change in Kenya through Global Social Entrepreneurship
Since 2008, the Yale School of Management’s Global Social Entrepreneurship (GSE) course has allowed graduate students across Yale University to apply what they have learned in the classroom to pressing social impact challenges facing organizations in emerging markets....
Big dreams in the Big Apple: The housing co-ops built by union radicals
A tale of housing co-ops born from poverty and urban squalor brings inspiration – and some sobering lessons in what can go wrong Working-Class Utopias: A history of cooperative housing in New York City, Robert M. Fogelson, Princeton University Press Urban...
Theme for this year’s International Credit Union Day theme announced
Woccu has released official posters and logos for the day, which will be celebrated on 20 October This year’s International Credit Union (ICU) Day, on 20 October, takes the theme Empower Your Financial Future with a Credit Union. The campaign is run by the...
CIVIL SOCIETY, Part 3, Accountability
ACCOUNTABILITY For this article we start a little nearer to home in Herefordshire. Sometimes it is useful to work outwards from the specific experience to a more global view of what should be. The ongoing public scandal around Herefordshire Children’s’ Services...
Worker co-op case studies offer lessons on equality to the world in crisis
The sector talks the the talk on social justice, but how does it work in practice? Two case studies from Joan Meyers put it to the test Working Democracies: Managing inequality in worker cooperatives, Joan S. M. Meyers, Cornell (ILR Press) After...
