20.04.08:Egham and Wakefield

Presentations at the NAHT and Egham Conferences on the 16th and 17th of April 2008 now available to download here.

10.03.08: Wakefield

John Abbott's presentation in Wakefield on the 7th is now available to download

4.03.08: University of the West of England

The presentation John Abbott gave at the Frenchay Campus for the 'Inclusion for Early Years Conference' is available to download here.

26.02.08:Canada

John Abbott's presentations in Manitoba are available to download, as is the PowerPoint presentation he has been using; "Education for a Life Worth Living" His presentation in the Opaskwayak Reserve, Manitoba is available here.

12.02.08:Bath and North East Somerset

The lecture given by John Abbott at the BANES Annual Headteachers' Conference at Bailbrook House on the 6th and 7th of February 2008 is now available to download.

30.01.08: Northamptonshire

The presentation John Abbott gave at the Northamptonshire Deputy Heads’ Conference on the 24th is now available to download.

23.01.08: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

John Abbott's recent presentation at the MANDEC Dental School are now available to download here.

3.12.07: November Canadian Presentations

Lectures given by John Abbott on his recent Canadian trip are available to download on the conference index page.

29.10.07: PowerPoints

Two PowerPoint presentations, one given in Cambridge on Octber 12th, and another given in Cardiff on October 20th are now available to download and view. Click here.

10.10.07:Canadian Presentations

All the presentations that John Abbott has given in Canada are available as PowerPoint presentations or slide packets on the Conference page. These include those in Fredericton, Winnipeg and Warman and at the Prairie Spirit School, the Atlantic Baptist University and now the Centennial Collegiate, Walter Murray Collegiate and Regina School District.

27.7.07: Homerton College, Cambridge

The presentation John Abbott gave at Homerton College in Cambridge on July 24th is now available to download.

20.6.07: Two Unpublished Manuscripts: An invitation to some interesting summer holiday reading

Those who have heard me lecturing over the past four or five years will remember that I have frequently made reference to a book that I was writing, and many of you will be wondering what has happened to it.

The story I was trying to write, just as the ideas I’ve been expressing in the lectures, has its origins a long time back. By 2001 I was already noting that while The Unfinished Revolution appealed most to those who wanted the intellectual rationale for why I (and my co-author at the time, Terry Ryan) thought there was a fundamental design mistake in the way western schooling was being developed, it was the history of my personal explanation of my struggle to effect change as recorded in The Child is Father of the Man that most held the reader’s attention. This troubled me. I needed a book that appealed both to the intellect and to the emotions, if large numbers of people were to be sufficiently energised to project a view of education that was truer to the real needs of young people. Only then would there be any chance of changing the course of the juggernaut that western education seems to have become.

Between late 2001 and 2005 I wrote Master & Apprentice; Reuniting thinking with doing as a way of combining both theory and practice in showing how western education had, through a whole series of compromise policies over the years, lost its sense of direction. When the book was finished some people wanted me to go ahead and publish it directly, while others urged caution, saying that it was too academic to address the needs of a multitude of people who needed something more specific, and less “inferential” — something that spelt conclusions out more clearly. In this I thought the criticism was right. By nature I am more a story teller to a group of people sitting in front of me (i.e. like a lecture) than I am a natural book writer; talking comes easily to me, writing it down does not. That being said there is so much in Master & Apprentice, and its argument about reuniting thinking with doing which is important, that I believe it is right to make this available now over the web to that ever increasing number of people around the world who I know are struggling with these ideas.

However, I must ask you to respect the fact that this book is still in manuscript form, and therefore is very much a draft — a work still in progress.

In late 2005 another publisher suggested that I should redraft all this material more in the form of an education manifesto, taking as my model Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses of 1517, that particular set of statements which did so much to stimulate the Reformation. Here I was also attracted by Malcolm Gladwell’s concept of a “Tipping Point” — a document/argument that could, by the clarity of what it said, deliver something of a “blinding flash” that would capture the public attention. Each of my theses was to be of no more than fifty or sixty words, followed by a clear explanation of each running to between 500 and 800 words.

Initially the model worked well. Taking stock at Thesis 24, and again at Thesis 49, this seemed to be working. But it was no longer working by the time I got to the end. The whole thing, rich as it is in both content and explanation, was just too heavy ever to become a best seller. And it was a best seller that would sit at the front of the bookstore that I was concerned to write. To produce such a best seller about education would be a sensation. It hasn’t happened before. People, unfortunately, while they realise that education is important, by and large don’t bother to read about it. This is probably the root cause of the current crisis in education; a confusion about what education should be about, and an equally great confusion about how to deliver this.

“Towards finding a New Order in Education” received a similar reaction from colleagues that had greeted the first manuscript — it contains much very important material, but was too long… and again was “too inferential”. As is my style I like to set out the relevant material, and then let the reader draw their own conclusions. I’m now seeing that there is something of a generational issue here — maybe it is that my writing style in these two manuscripts belongs to an earlier generation whose readers expected to be steadily drawn into an argument, and forced to think out what it meant. Probably these days have passed (at least for the time being) and that my writing style should change to reflect this.

In November 2006 I started a third attempt, a much slenderer work of some 60,000 words with the catchy title of “Why Education Isn’t Working; a guide for the perplexed”. Again I found increasing problems with the structure which came to resemble a shorter form of the Ninety-five Theses… but still lacking the punch that a book needed if it was to go to the front of the store. As that was the only place that I was interested in occupying — I wanted the book to be read by upwards of 100,000 people — I had to start all over again.

This I have now done and, with the help of Heather MacTaggart, the Deputy Director of the Canadian section of The 21st Century Learning Initiative, I’m getting well into the writing of a book that will, I really do think, at last fit the bill. Its working title is “Wasted Adolescence; an unintended consequence”. It has been written to satisfy both an international as well as a British audience. It should be completed well before Christmas. Once the publication arrangements have been completed the Initiative will then slightly edit each of the first two books in the expectation that they will be seen as valuable supplementary reading.

So, as many of you approach a summer holiday that may give you the much needed opportunity to do some stimulating reading, do feel free to download either or both of these manuscripts. In exchange I really would welcome your comments on the ideas as I have described them.

Good luck with your reading.

John Abbott
18th June 2007

Towards Finding a New Order in Education
Master & Apprentice

20.6.07: Cumbria & Manchester

The slides used at the CASH Annual Conference in Cumbria and at the City Learning Centre Managers' Annual Conference in Manchester are available to download from the Conference page. The Manchester conference is available as a PowerPoint presentation.

11.6.07: Swansea Education Authority

The slides used at the two conferences held on June 8th firstly at the Manor Park Hotel, Clydach and then at the Vale Hotel in Glamorgan, were selected from a larger lecture set, all of which will be found in this PDF.

John Abbott is currently working hard to complete, with his writing partner in Canada Heather MacTaggart, a new book very much extending the content of his present lecture. This is like to be called "Wasted Adolescence; An Unintended Consequence." He has two other books, currently in mss form which are not quite ready for publication, but both will shortly be available for downloading from this website.

The large of the two is entitled "Master and Apprentice; Reuniting Thinking with Doing" and is a wide ranging discussion of how thinking and doing have become, disastrously, disconnected in Western Education, especially in England. The second book "Towards a New Order in Education" consists of 99 Theses, based somewhat on Martin Luther's 95 Thesis that largely brought about the Reformation. A note will be posted on this website saying when they will be available, but please realise that both books are works in progress. They may well contain much information useful to many people, but they do not, as yet, reflect John Abbott's final thoughts on the matters.

18.5.07: Canada

Various presentations John Abbott has recently given across Canada are now available to download. Slides for New Brunswick include all the slides used in all six sessions. Slides for the Mission School District were used in the all-day and evening sessions. Most recently presentations to the Maple Ridge and Burnaby School Districts, and also the 5 sessions with the British Columbia Students' Conference. You can download packets here.

Also available is the PowerPoint presentation John Abbott gave in Ottawa for the National Learning Summit on Middle Childhood (in conjunction with the Canadian Council on Learning).

16.4.07: Suffolk

John Abbott's presentation at Gisleham Middle School in Suffolk can now be downloaded from the conference index page.

4.4.07: Doncaster, book review and new bibliography

Participants in the Doncaster conference on the 29th of March can now download the presentation here.

Janet Lawley has recently completed a book review of Before Dawn: Recovering the History of our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade which is available to read here.

An updated bibliography with preface from John Abbott is also now available.

29.3.07: Regina Presentations

Eleven separate presentations were made in these two districts, ranging from a seven hour presentation to a one and half hour presnetation, the numbers varying between 25 and 260. It is impossible to separate which slides were used at each session, but the following list for the seven hour presentation includes all those used at the shorter session. Click here to download the slides.

14.3.07: Saskatoon Presentations

The three presentations John Abbott gave in Saskatoon, Canada over the 7th and 8th of March are available to download from the conference index page.

2.3.07: Book Review

A Review of two books,The Myth of Homework: Why our kids get too much of a bad thing by Alfie Kohn and The Case Against Homework: How homework is hurting our children and what we can do about it by Bennett & Kalish that raise serious issues for all teachers and parents. By Janet Lawley.

23.2.07: Bath & The Lake District

Slide packets for presentations at St. Mark's School in Bath (16th)and the Low Wood Hotel, Windermere (19th-20th) are now available to download.

2.2.07: Manchester

Slide packet for the January 29th - 31st presentations in the Lake District are now available for download.

29.1.07: Zurich, Switzerland

Presentations for the 3 days of presentations for the European League for Middle Level Education from January 25th - 27th are available to view here.

26.1.07: New Brunswick

Slides now on the website for John Abbott's presentation in New Brunswick, Canada, from January 22nd - 23rd. View them here.

3.1.07: Happy New Year!

John Abbott would again like to draw your attention to a piece 16-year-old Paul Hillsdon wrote on the state of education as he sees it. Paul has also added a short biography to provide some context. Read the article here.

19.12.06: Suffolk

Slide packet now available for John Abbott's presentation to the Suffolk Advisory Service at Ufford Park, Woodbridge. Download the presentation here. Participants at this conference may also be interested in the bibliography John Abbott put together for the AISA groups in South Africa.

15.12.06: HRSDC and an article by 16-year-old Paul Hillsdon

John Abbott's HRSDC presentation in Ottawa is available as a PowerPoint presentation to download in either English or French.

Paul Hillsdon, a 16-year-old Canadian has written an article outlining his disaffection with the education system. More information on Paul, and how he came to writing this piece will be posted shortly. Read the article here, published with Paul's permission.

28.11.06: Canada

Due to John Abbott's hectic schedule while in Canada, we have decided to combine all the presentations into one. The slides included in the slide packet here comprise all those used for the various presentations listed below, though not all were used each time.

November 19th and 20th: Campbell River School District
November 21st and 22nd: Smithers School District
November 23rd: North Delta Secondary School,
November 24th and 25th: Comox valley School District
November 26th to 28th: Peace RIver North School District and
November 29th to December 1st: Vernon School District

You can download the slide packet here. Participants at this conference may also be interested in the bibliography John Abbott put together for the AISA groups in South Africa. When John gets back from Canada, sometime after December 7th, he has promised to identify the most important 10 of these books, and hopes this will help people.

20.11.06: Saskatoon Public Schools and Gulf Islands School Board District

Both slide packets are up for these two conferences. Download them here. Participants at this conference may also be interested in the bibliography John Abbott put together for the AISA groups in South Africa.

7.11.06: Tameside Heads Conference

Following the conclusion of this Training Programme some of the Heads put together their own training presentation. Attached here is one put together by Neil Flint, Head of Aspinal Primary School which he is very willing to share with other people. People beyond Tameside may find this of value. It is available as a PowerPoint here.

7.11.06: Newham Association of Primary Heads & Aiglon, Switzerland

Slides are now available for the Newham Association of Primary Heads annual conference and can be found on the conference index page. Participants at this conference may also be interested in the bibliography John Abbott put together for the AISA groups in South Africa. There are two books which participants might also be interested in purchasing, The Child is Father of the Man: How Humans Learn and Why, by John Abbott and The Unfinished Revolution: Learning, Human Behaviour, Community & Political Paradox, by John Abbott and Terry Ryan. Price is £15 each, or £25 for both. Please email or telephone through your order. Postage is free.

Aiglon College
Switzerland
Two day staff development programme

An apologetic note from John Abbott:

Shortly after leaving Aiglon to fly back to England my briefcase was stolen. In it were not only passport, keys, spare money etc, but also the slides I had used with you over the two days. Since then I have had to complete a number of meetings and it is taking me quite a while, by a process of eliminating the slides I still have, to work out exactly which ones I used with you. I hope to do this by about November 8th. I will then post them on this website. I am very sorry for the delay.

20.10.06: AISA, Johannesburg, South Africa, 13-16th October

Slides for both the Keynote Speech and workshops are available to download from the conference index page. A bibliography of key books for audiences in both Johannesburg and Addis Ababa is available here.

10.10.06: AISA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-9th October

Slides for both the Keynote Speech and workshops are available to download from the conference index page.

25.09.06: Curious Teenagers, Busy Parents and Market Forces: Changing the face of education in the 21st Century.

An interview with John Abbott that appeared in Lion Magazine, Wesley College, Sept 2006, Melbourne, Australia. Click here to read.

24.07.06: Tameside, June 26th - 28th

The Tameside training programme presentation given in 3 sessions from the 26th - 28th of June is now available to download.

22.06.06: Wiltshire Gifted and Talented, University of Bath

The presentation John Abbott gave at the University of Bath on June 21st can be downloaded here.

19.06.06: Devon Small Schools and Wesley College presentations and CCL

The Devon Small Schools lecture on June 15th is available to download from the conference index page. The presentation John Abbott gave at the Wesley College Institute in Melbourne on May 27th can be downloaded as a Word file by clicking here.

Canadian Council on Learning

All the papers for the meeting in Vancouver on June 9th 2006 were circulated privately.

19.05.06 - 26.5.06: Tameside Headteachers Conference and Wigan Primary Heads Conference

Both are now available to download from the conference index page.

5.5.06: Suffolk Primary Heads Conference & Booklist

The Suffolk County Council Primary Leaders Conference, "Opening Minds; Unlocking Futures" is now available to download from the conference listing. A new book list has been added and can be accessed here.

21.4.06: Correspondence with Ministers

From time to time the Initiative attempts to capture the interest of Ministers, and politicians in general, by well-reasoned, personal correspondence. Earlier visitors to this website will remember correspondence with the Prime Minister and his policy unit, and with David Miliband. We have added recent correspondence with Lord Adonis, David Bell and Ruth Kelly. Read the letters and replies here.

7.4.06: Notes

The Northampton Rotarian Charter Night 3rd April, 2006

This was a lecture delivered without slides . As the lecture topic was Battery Hens or Free Range Chickens: What Kind of Education for what Kind of World, members of Rotary are invited to look at any one of several recent presentations, especially Doncaster (31st March) or Tameside (27th-29th March)

Second Cohort of Manchester Head Teachers Training Program 4th April, 2006

All slides, bar two, were used at an earlier training session held at the Lakeside hotel. The two new slides are available here as a PDF file.

31.3.06 - 3.4.06: Recent Lectures, March

The Teaching and Learning Conference held in Doncaster on the 31st of March is now available to download from the conference list page

Slide packets available for conferences in Blakeney, Norfolk and Tameside, Lancaster.

10.3.06 - 24.3.06: Canada & Lost in Translation

The material used in Saskatchewan at the Saskatoon Inn from the 16th - 18th of March is available to view from the conference index page.

Lost in Translation, a reflection John Abbott wrote about the Harrison Hot Springs event (March 7th - 8th) is available to download as a Word document in both French and English.

The Distinguished Speakers Programme presentation given in Ottawa is now available as are all five sessions held at the Delta Fredericton Hotel in Fredericton.

Slide packets for 3 presentations in Fort St. John and one at Harrison Hot Springs are now available to download. Also a new Recommended Reading List has been posted which you can view here.

John Abbott will be producing a new bibliography by the middle of April. Apologies for the delay, but once his Canada tour ends he has two hectic weeks back in England before he will have time to do this properly.

3.3.06 : Recent Lectures, February

Market Harborough Rotarians Charter Night : February 13th

This was a largely unscripted after dinner presentation without slides. Delegates wishing to revisit the ideas that were addressed are advised to go to the speech "Learning for the Future - The Rain Forest Model" which can be found here (downloads as a Word file)

Istanbul & Ankara, Turkey

All the lectures given in Istanbul and Ankara are available to download here

Tokyo, Japan

The presentation given at the British School is available here and for those involved in the workshops the article Adolescence: A Critical Evolutionary Adaptation (downloads as a Word file) will be of interest.

Participants at the parent meetings on the 21st will benefit from viewing "Learning for the Future - The Rain Forest Model" available as a Word document or Powerpoint presentation

Hounslow Primary Headteacher's Conference, Sandbanks Hotel, Poole, February 23rd

This speech was based on the one given in November 2005 in Tameside in the presence of Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Education Education and Skills, which is available as a Word document or Powerpoint presentation

3.2.06 : IB Paper and Slide packet

Slides for the Bath Small Schools Seminar on February 2nd and 9th are available here. A paper for the International Baccalaureate Organisation's Electronic Conference from the Spring of 2004 entitled “Enriching Communities: Concepts of Communities in the Future” is available to download as a Word document. Also a reminder that if you would like to read a manuscript for the as yet unpublished Master and Apprentice: Reuniting Thinking with Doing, you can email us at mail@21learn.org and we will give you details of how to access the files.

30.1.06 : Tameside and Windermere slide packets available

Slides for the second residential conference of the Manchester Primary Heads in Windermere is available, as are slides for the Head Teacher's Termly Conference in Ashton Under Lyne. Both are here

20.1.06 : Fort St John Slides up

The complete set of slides for the two day conference in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada is available here.

16.1.06 : Canada

A set of slides, used three times in Fort St John, British Columbia in mid January 2006, and late in Fredericton New Brunswick for filming purposes, have now been turned into a Short Presentation. These are set out here as a PDF file.

N.B. A further PDF for slides used with the 2 student seminars in Fort St John will be made available on this website by January 21st.

2.12.05 : Tameside & Manchester

Complete slide presentation in context available to download here as a Word file. Slides for the Manchester Urban Conference on December 1st available on the conference page.

18.9.05 : Slide packet for Q.C.A. Futures and Powerpoint for Tameside BSF launch available.

Click here for slides for the Q.C.A. Futures talks and here for the Tameside powerpoint.

11.11.05 : French Translations

The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) have provided full French translations for several of the Initiative's key articles. They are listed below and available to download in two formats, for Word (doc)and Adobe Acrobat (pdf).

L’adolescence : une adaptation critique dans l’évolution Adolesence: A Critical Evolutionary Adaptation
L’espèce des apprenants peut-elle s’adapter à l’école? Can the Learning Species fit into Schools?
Les Enfants, Les Familles, Le Capital Social et L’Éducation À L’heure du Capitalisme Éfréné Children, Families, Social Capital and Education in Go-Go Capitalism
Le lieutenant de vaisseau Peter Puget, le grain du cerveau et la méconnaissance des adolescents par la société moderne Lieutenant Peter Puget, the grain of the brain and modern society’s failure to understand adolescents
Être intelligent To Be Intelligent
Quand apprendrons-nous? When Will We Ever Learn?

28.10.05 : Bibliography of current good reads for Freshford available

Click here to view the list (PDF).

21.10.05 : Tipperary, Liverpool, and Freshford Slide packets available.

Please visit the conference listing to download the slide packets for the conferences in Tipperary, Liverpool and Freshford.

14.10.05 : New Slides and a new take on Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale"

Slides for John Abbott's recent lectures in Luanda, Angola and Thurles, Tipperary now availble here.

In this important article, Peter Birch reconsiders The Winter’s Tale in the light of recent developments in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Available here as a PDF file.

4.10.05 : Manchester, UK September 26-28th, 2005

Slide packet for this lecture now availble here. Includes those slides used by Janet Lawley.

20.9.05 : Humber College, Toronto

Slides for this lecture now availble here

13.9.05 : Canadian Council for Learning

Slides available for The Canadian Council for Learning Conference on September 12th and 13th. Click here.

4.7.05 : Canadian Council for Learning

In the near future the Canadian Council on Learning is inviting some two hundred participants to a national conference to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto on September 12th and 13th 2005 ... People interested in being part of this programme are encouraged to search this website to see the kinds of materials and ideas that will be discussed ... click here for full release.

Website Changes

21learn.org will soon be receiving a face-lift in the hopes that the information on the site can be accessed more quickly and efficiently by visitors. Please bear with us as these changes are implemented.

30.6.05 : Budapest Conference

Slides and speech available for the Open Society Institute Education Conference in
Budapest from June 30th to July 2nd. Slides are available as a Powerpoint presentation.

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20.6.05 : Message from John Abbott, President

Two weeks ago I gave a number of mini presentations at the Yokohama International School (following the various presentations at the Tokyo British School). Last week I gave several more mini presentations in Manchester, England, both to the primary heads and to a delegation of secondary school principals and administrators for Trinidad and Tobago. I suggest everyone who was at any of these presentations should use one of the previous sets of slides, possibly the short presentation at the Campaign for Learning on June 10th, which is complete with slides and text. Click here for the Campaign for Learning presentation.

13.6.05 : Can the Learning Species fit into Schools?

Speech delivered to The Campaign for Learning at Kensignton Town hall on June 10th, 2005, by John Abbott. Click here

6.6.05 : Slide Packets Added

Slide packets from recent conferences in Korea and Japan now available here

31.5.05 : Email address change: Final Reminder

As of tomorrow (June 1st) any email not addressed to mail@21learn.org will not be received by the Initiative. This includes the previous email addresses: info@21learn.org, 21learn@21learn.org, abbottdr@21learn.org, ryan@21learn.org etc. Email will only be received at mail@21learn.org, so please update your address books! Many thanks.

Slide Packet added.

Slide packet uploaded for the Bath and North East Somerset conference on May 25th. Click here to download.

24.5.05 : Book review

A review by James MacFarlan on behalf of the 21st Century Learning Initiative on The Road to Whatever: Middle class culture & the crisis of adolescence, by Elliott Currie. Abstract follows:

‘Whatever …’

This ubiquitous, all-embracing retort of American youth is here taken to be a symbol of the growing ‘careless-ness’ of adolescents to any dangerous or self-destructive act they have been responsible for.

Elliott Currie, an American academic with a Pulitzer Prize-nominated pedigree, proves that he is not afraid to leave the comfort of the lecture hall to meet alienated, rejected young people across America in an attempt to explain a very contemporary phenomenon: why is it that more and more white, middle class, affluent boys and girls are prepared to indulge in regular, sustained acts of crime and anti-social behaviour, of which the recent shootings at Columbine are the most extreme and tragic face?

The author’s painstaking, unsentimental unravelling of this mystery is by turns shocking and exhilarating: shocking because of the hypocrisy and neglect Currie reveals at the heart of American society; exhilarating because of the mostly straightforward solutions he offers to alleviate, even eradicate, the problem.

His searing analysis is a blunt warning to all of us in the Western, ‘civilised’ world of what happens when our own children are neglected in favour of material comfort and convenience alone.

Click here for full reviews.

Slide packet added
Slides packet for the Manchester Primary Heads Annual Conference in Chester now available.
Click here.

17.5.05 : Appointment of Senior Research Assistant
The Initiative has recently appointed Vicki Wolfe as Senior Research Assistant, with effect from the 15th July 2005. Vicki was educated at Beaconsfield High School, and gained her Honours B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of St. Andrews, during which when she held a scholarship to study for a year at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a PGCE (Secondary) from the University of Cambridge, and has taught in London and abroad.

Her prime task will be to assist the President of the Initiative in the writing of various books and articles by ensuring that the Initiative has the most thorough understanding of the most recent research, drawn from different disciplines in various countries, on how the brain works, how humans learn, and how we construct and maintain communities. Her secondary task will be to make as much of this research as possible available to others through providing regular reports to be placed on the Website. She will also assist John Abbott on occasions with some of the Initiative’s training programmes, and lectures.

Two new slide packets added

Slide packets are now available for the may 13th lecture in Skopje and the may 14th lecture in Ohrid, macedonia. Visit the conference listing here to download the slides.

11.5.05 : You can help us
As this site has grown, parts of it have become unwieldy and out-of-date. We are beginning an across the board reorganisation of the site and would very much appreciate some feedback from you. If you are a member of our mailing list you will already have received notification of a poll we have opened to help us come to an understanding of our viewers. Those of you not on our list, but who would like to make a contribution to our research, may email us at mail@21learn.org with comments and suggestions. We are most interested in how often you visit the site and how long you remain. Also, it would be most useful if you could outline what you use the site for, and how you would like to see the site develop in the future. Many thanks!

5.5.05 : EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE:
Please note that as of Thursday May 4th, 2005, The Initiative will be changing its email address from info@21learn.org to mail@21learn.org. All emails should now be addressed to mail@21learn.org. From the 1st of June 2005 mail sent to info@21learn.org will not be received. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.