The Guardian - Learning to build the 'big society'

Anglia Ruskin University's new charity and social enterprise management course is based on 'lived experience', says its leader…

In his highly readable book on management education, Managers not MBAs, Henry Mintzberg argues that learning is based on reflection, that real experience is the best thing for this reflection to centre on, and that the learning is reinforced as the student takes it back into his or her organisation – these tenets form the basis for our new Cert HE.

No one will ever be able to ensure that all the lions have read the book, but, by following Mintzberg's principles, and continuing to listen to our students, we can at least develop organisations (and people) which are tough enough to give pause to any predator hoping for a nice easy snack.