Co-operative College Annual Meeting

2. Co-operative CollegeAnnual Meeting

3. Developing Members and Managers • Board skills audits and performance reviews • Revising the College member learning programmes • Piloting new methodologies for member development • Extending elearning programmes

4. Developing Members and Managers • New partnerships to deliver vocational learning • Providing learning programmes for consumer, housing and worker co‑operatives and credit unions

5. Working with Co-operatives Globally • Partner in the Coop Africa programme • Reviews of African Co‑operative Colleges • Kenya – supporting smallholder tea producers • Research and policy unit

6. Working with Co-operatives Globally • Youth and Student Co-operative Forum in Lesotho • Programmes in New Zealand and Australia • European partnerships - MOSE

7. Learning from our Heritage • Co-operative Heritage Trust established and key collections assigned to it • ROCHDALE project receives stage 1 approval from the Heritage Lottery Fund • Museum receives VAQAS and Accreditation awards

8. Learning from our Heritage • Cataloguing of the Archive collections gathers pace • Museum and Libraries and Archives Council projects enable NW schools to develop use of the archive • More volunteers and placements

9. Working with Schools and Young People • New models for Young Co-operatives • New ASDAN Co-operative Studies qualifications • From the first Co-operative Trust school to many! • Co-operative National Challenge Trusts

10. Working with Schools and Young People • Partner in the Enterprise Network • New resources on Fair and ethical trade disseminated nationally • Extending global links – Europe and Africa

11. Going forward • Providing funded vocational learning programmes to all parts of the co-operative sector • Securing the stage 2 HLF approval • Mainstreaming co-operative schools • Building our global partnerships • Extending our research capacity • “To be a well governed, effectively managed and financially stable charity”

12. Cultivating the Co-operative Spirit90 years of the Co-operative CollegeDr Linda Shaw

13. “Cultivating the co-operative spirit” • Origins of the College • Why a College? • Key features • Survival of the fittest • Looking forward

14. Origins • Patchwork of formal educational provision during the nineteenth century at society level but ‘golden age’ of informal learning • Co-operative Union providing courses nationally from the 1880s • Debates over the purpose of co‑operative education

15. Citizenship education c1900

16. Co-operative Union 1910 • The objects of co-operative education are, primarily, the formation of co‑operative character and opinions by teaching the history, theory, and principles of the movement, with economics and industrial and constitutional history in so far as they have a bearing on Co-operation;

17. Why a College? • Modelled on Ruskin College? • Other Co-operative Colleges established in same decade • No other college met needs of the movement

18. Manchester based

19. Consistent focus for the College on: • Leadership education – training officials, tutors • International programmes • Publications • Correspondence courses • Research

20. Move to Stanford Hall • Similar moves made by unions • More facilities • Introduction of government funded programmes for international students • ‘Courses for Directors of Societies were offered, regarded as very useful but failed to attract participants’. Marshall,1967

21. Co-operative Colleges set up in more than 14 countries

22. Survival of the fittest • College enjoyed many successful years but a changing environment and movement challenges • Some Colleges disappeared eg Canada, others struggled eg across Africa • Challenge to remain innovative and responsive to needs of movement

23. Co-operative Colleges for the 21st century • UK College eg schools work and as guardian of movement heritage • Renewal of membership and international work • Revival also happening with African Colleges

24. Co-operative College for the 21st century • We now have a real opportunity for a renewed global profile not just for the UK Co-operative College but for Co‑operative Colleges globally

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26. Co-operative 2009 – International Schools Conference

27. Co-operative 2009 – International Schools Conference

28. Co-operative 2009 – International Schools Conference

29. Co-operative 2009 – International Schools Conference

31. Invitation to Plymouth 2010