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Baroness Stern on Women’s Imprisonment: this has gone on too long  30-04-12

We were fortunate to welcome Baroness Vivien Stern as our guest speaker at Ramsay Garden last month. Stern is a...

Posted in: Events, Kitbag, Prisons

Post-Creative Scotland  26-03-12

Award-winning poet, writer and musician Don Paterson was our guest at Ramsay Garden this month.  He chose as his topic ‘post-creative Scotland’ ...

Posted in: Cultural leadership, Arts, Events, Governance

Public Service Reform: Desperation or Inspiration?  03-02-12

The Christie Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services, established by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, issued its report...

Posted in: Education, Financial Crisis, Governance, Health

Richard Demarco: Taking Edinburgh Seriously  27-01-12

We enjoyed one of our more remarkable Ramsay Garden seminars earlier this month with Richard Demarco – a life force in the Scottish arts scene for many decades.

Posted in: Cultural leadership, Arts, Events, IFF

David MacKay on Scotland's Energy Futures  21-12-11

Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics at Cambridge University, came to prominence in 2009 following the publication of his book Sustainable...

Posted in: Adaptive Imperative, Events, Resilience and Transformation

Iona Heath: Can Scotland Save the NHS?  02-11-11

Dr Iona Heath, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, has for a long time provided a much-admired brave...

Posted in: Events, Health

Land Reform As An Engine Of Economic Progress  02-11-11

We enjoyed a lively session at Ramsay Garden last week with Andy Wightman, the researcher, campaigner and author of The Poor Had No Lawyers: who owns Scotland and how they got it.

Posted in: Enterprise, Events, Governance

Shakti Maira: India, Growth and the case for a ‘Beautiful Economics’  07-10-11

We enjoyed a very special occasion at Ramsay Garden last month. ‘Disenchanted economist’, artist and writer Shakti Maira was visiting from India.

Posted in: Enterprise, Events, India

Education reform in Scotland: Turning the McKinsey model on its head  23-09-11

There is a quiet revolution under way in Scottish education. I know this is not a fashionable position. But confirmation comes for me in the unlikely guise of a recent McKinsey report reviewing three decades of educational...

Posted in: Education, Events, Innovation, Learning

Remembering Max Boisot, 1943 - 2011  15-09-11

Max Boisot died last week, quite suddenly (he went into hospital and was diagnosed with cancer only in mid-July) and by today's standards quite young (he was 67).

Posted in: IFF, Learning