“I regard it as the foremost task of education to ensure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self-denial, and above all, compassion”
Kurt Hahn
One of the most striking parts of the huge media coverage for Prince Philip over the past few days has been his extraordinary achievement with the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. It has been reported that over five million young people have benefited from this programme providing hope, life skills and opportunity in abundance.
But the story starts much earlier than the mid-1950s when the Awards scheme began.
Prince Philip’s early life was not untypical of children now taken into care, growing up in circumstances which shattered conventional family life. However, his teenage years gave him a firm platform demonstrating how, given the right opportunities, all young people can break free of the challenges that beset them in early life and achieve their potential.
So please READ ON .. as this week we take a closer look at what brought this opportunity and a sense of purpose to the young Prince Philip, and how we can follow his example in the years ahead.
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Welcome to Gavin Oldham's full presentation describing his vision for egalitarian capitalism.
The main set of proposals are as follows:
Egalitarian Capitalism is an alternative to socialism which, while fostering and encouraging enterprise for all, acts to involve and empower people right across society and especially the young.
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at David Cameron and the Greensill scandal. He believes the existing system governing lobbying needs tightening up and suggests ways in which it can and should be made fairer and more transparent. He also examines the problems being faced in Northern Ireland at present and looks ahead to the Scottish elections.
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LISTEN HERESteve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, looks at the NHS Covid-19 app falling foul of Apple and Google for privacy violations. There's also Google Pixel helping smartphone zombies, soaring PC sales, Amazon's virtual shopping patent, a contest to pedal over the channel, how human hair is helping improve solar cells, a new way of cooling computers, Segway's cool-looking motorbike, a built-in bike lock and yet another attempt to improve on the QWERTY keyboard.
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MOREAdam creates a hypnosis session designed to encourage and empower people to change their subconscious beliefs about income. Most people are dependent on employment as their only source of income and Adam creates a hypnosis session inspires by Aesop's fable on the Goose that lays the golden eggs. This is part of Adam's new course he is creating called Hypnotic Wealth.
LISTEN HEREEvery child in the UK born between 1 Sept 2002 and 2 Jan 2011 has a Child Trust Fund (CTF). But one child in six has lost contact with the money. Gavin Oldham, Chairman of The Share Foundation – which runs the Junior ISA & Child Trust Fund schemes for children in care for the Department for Education - is trying to re-connect them. He talks through the CTF, how to track an account down, and what a child can and can’t do with the money.
MOREIn a new partnership with publishers Harriman House, Share Radio has produced its first audiobook 'Superinvestors', written by Matthew Partridge and read by some of Share Radio's best known presenters. 'Superinvestors' lays bare the investing secrets of legendary investors - from early 20th-century figures such as Benjamin Graham and John Maynard Keynes, through to more modern names such as Anthony Bolton and Warren Buffett.
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