Neil has had an outstanding career as a teacher, headteacher, chief education adviser and Local Education Authority officer in the UK. During the nineties, he returned to Headship as Headteacher of West Kidlington Primary and Nursery School in Oxford, UK. It was here that the school community worked together to devise and implement a unique system of Values-based Education that has become well-known throughout the world for its excellent educational practice.
In 1996, Neil worked with a group of international educators at UNICEF headquarters in New York, USA, to found Living Values. It works with organisations such as UNESCO to underpin education systems with Values Education. Neil is a founding member of ALIVE (The Association of Living Values International) which is a charity registered in Switzerland that coordinates Living Values Education.
What can Neil and his colleagues do for you?
Neil now works as an international education consultant. He has supported the Australian Government's transformational introduction of Values Education in its schools. In the UK, he has led 'a quiet revolution' to support hundreds of schools to be values-based. This year he will be speaking at conferences in Australia, Brunei, New Zealand, Iceland, Sweden and Ireland.
Increasingly, the methods of his philosophy "Valuing" are being endorsed by Ofsted, the school inspection service in England, as leading to outstanding practice. Neil is well-known as an inspirational conference speaker. Recently he spoke to 600 School Principals, at the European Heads' Conference, in Cyprus. He is also known for his books and contributions to broadcasting, academic journals, magazines and periodicals. His influence extends into business and commerce, as institutions seek to be values-based. He is one of the National Education Trust's Leading Thinkers and is the Founder and of the International Values Education Trust. Neil is currently working with the Dynamic Values Team who are able to support values-based developments in your school, setting or company. Contact Neil here.
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Why do it?
Dr.Neil Hawkes
Founder of the international Values Education Trust
Prior to 1992, Neil Hawkes’s career was spent in the UK as a
teacher, deputy headteacher and in two headships. From 1983 until 1989, Neil worked as an Education Adviser for Buckinghamshire and from 1989 to 1993 as Chief
Adviser/Principal Education Officer of the Isle of Wight Education Service.
He then decided to implement his values philosophy, by spending six and a half years (1993 - 2000) as Headteacher of West Kidlington Primary and Nursery School in
Oxford, UK. It was here that the school community worked together to devise and implement a unique system of Values-based Education. The school still attracts a
lot of national and international visitors, keen to see how the values philosophy works in practice.
Between 1999 and 2005, Neil was a Senior Adviser for Oxfordshire, responsible for school improvement based on Values Education. Neil currently works as an
international consultant in Values-based Education and leadership.
In 2008, Neil founded the International Values Education Trust to promote the development of values-based organisations around the world.
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