Determined to Succeed was the 2002 Scottish government’s review of education for work and enterprise. It is also the title of a newly published book (Kevin Murphy and Neil McLennan, Lulu, £14.99) distributed to school students in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
The foreword by David Cameron (the real David Cameron, Stirling’s former director of education) stresses that the economy needs people who are highly and appropriately skilled but also self-aware.
The book presents young people with excellent models for developing skills and self-awareness. Successful individuals – from police officer to personal shopper, golfer to petroleum engineer – offer their unique, sometimes contradictory, perspectives.
The petroleum engineer had to bypass a teacher who dismissed her mathematical abilities as non-existent and various men sceptical of a woman’s ability to rise in that professional sphere.
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