Turbulent Times: Skills for a Global World
Over the past 12 months, Think Global has been working together with OCR to look more closely at questions about the skills young people really need to live and work in such a world.
Thinking about ‘Stuff’! Consumer Classroom website has tips and resources for how to shop sustainably.
Think Global has recently joined with partners across Europe to work on the Consumer Classroom website.
Business, development and education
The Global Business Coalition for Education launched its 'Business Backs Education' campaign last month at the Global Education Skills Forum (GESF) in Dubai. The campaign challenges business to commit 20% of its philanthropic spending to education projects by 2020. The campaign has sparked a number of different conversations around the Think Global community.
Should charities work with profit-making businesses? I think the answer is yes.
The issue of whether charities should work alongside businesses whose primary goal is to make profit has been in the news recently.
Using universities to drive economic growth…and drive global answers?
Interesting report out today from Sir Andrew Witty, the boss of GlaxoSmithKline, proposing a £1 billion fund to turn 'globally competitive technological ideas into real business'.