Dick Sblog

I do so like a nice bit of irony.

Here am I, quietly banging on to noone in particular about the need to develop skills of collaboration amongst our students, particularly in distributed working environments., when along comes Peter Kingston in the Guardian with a piece about an unpublished report on the Learning and Skills Council.

I quote:

‘”unnecessary duplication abounds” in the nation’s biggest quango and there is a lack of collaboration between different departments and its nine regions in England’.

and

‘…there is scant evidence of collaboration across the organisation’

and

‘Some staff told the report’s compilers that the LSC’s most recent organisational changes had “specifically discouraged collaboration and knowledge sharing”‘

I rest my case.