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Professor Gus John-BUC Executive is now friends with Sonia Meggie and Paulette West MBE BUC Ambassador Mar 16, 2010

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Hi, Paulette Thanks for your very warm welcome. I trust that I can add value to what BUC has done thus far and assist in unlocking the potential of the dynamic and multi-skilled membership of BUC. Given the many and severe challenges we face in an…

Mar 16, 2010

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Hi Professor Augustine John, Welcome to BUC. Congratulations on your very imjpressive profile. I am very happy to have your presence here on our website. Please feel free to upload pictures, videos, blogs, create discussions, add/join groups, make…

Mar 9, 2010

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Your Professional/Academic Profile: Associate Professor of Education and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Education, University of London. Formerly Adviser on Race and Social Inclusion to British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, and to the British Cabinet.

• A committed educationalist and learning facilitator since 1965, with vast experience of developing and delivering education programmes, lecturing in education policy, inspecting schools and colleges, and of management at senior level in local government administration and in colleges and universities.
• Became the first African Director of Education and Leisure Services in Britain in 1989.
• Inspirational leader, executive coach and mentor, with international experience as a leadership and management consultant and public affairs commentator.
• Adviser on Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Investment programmes that could enable foreign inward investors to invest in local people and deliver training and capacity building, social, educational, health and community development programmes in tandem with wealth creation and the growth of new markets.
• Social analyst of distinction, with a solid track record in conducting social audits for public and corporate sector organizations and assisting them in managing change. Extensive experience of conducting social research and auditing and programme evaluation for central government, regional and local government and for schools, colleges, universities, health authorities, the Law Society, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Attorney General’s Office.
• Executive Coach to senior politicians, CEOs, civil servants and NGO personnel.
• Has run a successful Masterclass on ‘Leadership and Management’ for CEOs, government administrators and University Vice Chancellors.
• Successfully developed restorative justice models for use with young people in schools and communities, including those involved in face to face and, increasingly, cyber space bullying as well as those involved in gangs and ‘cults’.
• Member of Channel 4’s ‘Street Weapons Commission’.
• Adviser to government in Britain on youth and criminal justice matters, and in the Caribbean and Africa on meeting the Millennium Development Goals relating to schooling, education and youth.
• Has been working with the African Union/African Diaspora Reunification Project since 2006 and chaired an Education Commission for the AU in 2007, attending the Inter-Ministerial Conference in Johannesburg in November 2007 to report on issues arising from the work of the Commission. Involved since in advising member states in Africa and the Caribbean (Cameroon, Somaliland, Lagos Sate Government, Jamaica) in meeting the MDGs related to education and youth.
• Wide experience of conducting scoping studies and drawing up delivery plans for projects in Africa and the Caribbean.
• An acknowledged authority on community development, employment creation and social affairs among the African Diaspora community in Britain and Europe.
• A dynamic public speaker and a regular commentator on radio and television and in the printed media.

Your Social Profile/ just more about who you are: Born in Grenada, Eastern Caribbean in 1945 and has lived in the UK since 1964.
A socially conscious and aware individual , deeply concerned with community development, employment creation and social affairs.
A dynamic public speaker and an Inspirational leader who has worked extensively with young people in schools and communities, including those involved in face to face and, increasingly, cyber space bullying as well as those involved in gangs and ‘cults’.

Your Organisation:Description and Services offered: a) Assisting Government to take active steps to answer the call of the 2007 World Development Report ‘to make its top priorities: education, healthcare and job training for the next generation in order to banish poverty and galvanize its economy’
b) Delivering Mediation, Conciliation and Peace Building programs in conflict areas, including conflicts between youth factions and ‘gangs’ and ‘cults’
c) Applying a model for working with young people involved in gang (and ‘cult’) activity and in gun and knife crime, including preventive work with primary school children
d) Developing youth employment and entrepreneuring programmes, linked to vocational training and life long learning
e) Work with local groups to explore existing vocational training provision and opportunities for expanding that provision to support the economy and extend the range of services available to the community (farming, plumbing, electrical engineering, IT services, motor mechanics, joinery, tie dyeing, shoemaking and cobbling, blacksmiths, printing, etc.)
f) Developing micro-finance programmes, especially for youth and women in village communities
g) Conducting scoping research for the governments of Cameroon, Somaliland and Jamaica
h) Advising the Somaliland Government on strategies for gaining international recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign, democratic and independent state and on creating a youth justice system
i) Advising the Jamaican government on the establishment of a nationwide Advisory and Inspection Service for schools

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At 10:47pm on March 9, 2010, Paulette West MBE BUC Ambassador said…: Hi Professor Augustine John,
Welcome to BUC.
Congratulations on your very imjpressive profile. I am very happy to have your presence here on our website. Please feel free to upload pictures, videos, blogs, create discussions, add/join groups, make friends and network with positive like minded individuals.
I look forward to further connecting with you.
Have a wonderful and blessed day.