preserving multiculturalism
Publications & Conference
Publications, Presentations at Conferences and Television programs
Major Press Reports
Numerous articles including:
1) “Barred and Bored: Exclusions”
The Times Education Supplement (TES)
Issue date: September 17th 1999
Journalist: Wendy Wallace
Interview with Dr. Vince Padi
2) “Boys to men: Mentoring”
The Times Education Supplement (TES)
Issue date: January 21st 2000
Journalist: Wendy Wallace
Interview with Dr. Vince Padi
3) “A class apart”
Sunday Telegraph
Issue date: 5th January 2003
Interview with Dr. Vince Padi
4) Several articles in:
The Guardian (South London)
Croydon Advertiser
Brent Advertiser
“Boys to Men: Mentoring” Features & arts
Source: The Times Educational Supplement (TES)
Issue date: Friday January 21, 2000
Byline: Wendy Wallace
“……………. ONE TO ONE: WHY MENTORING IS A MUST
Mentoring schemes – seen as a useful way of working with pupils at risk of educational failure and disaffection – have proliferated in recent years. The Commission for Racial Equality has just secured f our million pounds funding for its Millennium Mentor Awards Scheme, aimed at particularly (but not only) at helping young black people who have tangled with the police to get involved in community life instead of crime.
The project will be run by training agency RPS Rainer through racial equality councils and demonstrates CRE chair Herman Ouseley’s personal interesting in mentoring. “It’s important for young black men to see positive role models who are not part of the music world or the American media hype,” he says “They need to see more successful black males who have made it in spite of negative attitudes and can convey to disillusioned youngsters that you can be successful, discrimination not withstanding.”
Herman Ouseley believes positive modelling needs to begin early, with six and seven-year old-olds, “You need a positive group leading those coming from behind. Children with a lot of baggage can go off the rails at primary levels – they need supportive programmes to help them focus positively on themselves in spite of what they go home to.”
Young black men stand to benefit greatly from the personalised input and attention mentoring offers, says Vince Padi of the African and Afro-Caribbean Peoples’ Advisory Group (FEAST), a London charity helping pupils and families with school issues. “Because many of the boys do not really have any real roots, mentoring is critical to help them identify who they are and to give them probable direction,” he says. “The mentor must be one of their kind, somebody who’s been through it, had a similar background and speaks their language. Anyone over 45 is a waste of time.”
Major Press Reports
Numerous articles including:
1) “Barred and Bored: Exclusions”
The Times Education Supplement (TES)
Issue date: September 17th 1999
Journalist: Wendy Wallace
Interview with Dr. Vince Padi
2) “Boys to men: Mentoring”
The Times Education Supplement (TES)
Issue date: January 21st 2000
Journalist: Wendy Wallace
Interview with Dr. Vince Padi
3) “A class apart”
Sunday Telegraph
Issue date: 5th January 2003
Interview with Dr. Vince Padi
4) Several articles in:
The Guardian (South London)
Croydon Advertiser
Brent Advertiser
“Boys to Men: Mentoring” Features & arts
Source: The Times Educational Supplement (TES)
Issue date: Friday January 21, 2000
Byline: Wendy Wallace
“……………. ONE TO ONE: WHY MENTORING IS A MUST
Mentoring schemes – seen as a useful way of working with pupils at risk of educational failure and disaffection – have proliferated in recent years. The Commission for Racial Equality has just secured f our million pounds funding for its Millennium Mentor Awards Scheme, aimed at particularly (but not only) at helping young black people who have tangled with the police to get involved in community life instead of crime.
The project will be run by training agency RPS Rainer through racial equality councils and demonstrates CRE chair Herman Ouseley’s personal interesting in mentoring. “It’s important for young black men to see positive role models who are not part of the music world or the American media hype,” he says “They need to see more successful black males who have made it in spite of negative attitudes and can convey to disillusioned youngsters that you can be successful, discrimination not withstanding.”
Herman Ouseley believes positive modelling needs to begin early, with six and seven-
FEAST has organised more than 300 mentor/mentee pairings in its six year history and the results, say Vince Padi, can be dramatic. “Mentors can perform wonders if you give them the freedom and respect to act. It’s not the quantity of time together that counts but the quality of the relationship.”
The Government is firmly behind mentoring as a tool for raising aspiration in Afro-Caribbean pupils, and in other groups of young people considered at risk. Paul Boateng, Deputy Home Secretary, has praised the activities as “a unique form of one to one community involvement.” The government –sponsored National Mentoring Network, established in 1994 now has 600 members organisations, a third of them recruited in the past year………………”
Presentations
1. “The African Challenge”
Croydon Voluntary Association Conference November 2002
Presentation by Dr. V Padi
2. “Steven Lawrence; the way forward” in 2002
Organised by London Borough of Croydon & the MET
Presentation by Dr. V Padi
3. “Effective Parenting”
Presentation to Croydon Magistrates in June 2002
Edited by Dr. V Padi
4. Chairing of numerous Achievement Award events to Pupils and students in schools and colleges across London.
5. Assemblies taken in various schools in the London Borough if Haringey.
Television Programs
6. “Supporting Successful education”
Telewest, November 2000
Interview with Dr. Padi
7. “The Class Apart”
Channel 4 television education series program on Ryan Bell in 2002. Major acknowledgement of Dr. Vince Padi’s contribution.
Evaluation and Report
These are measured in terms of the feedback given by the clients.
The Government is firmly behind mentoring as a tool for raising aspiration in Afro-
1. “The African Challenge”
Croydon Voluntary Association Conference November 2002
Presentation by Dr. V Padi
2. “Steven Lawrence; the way forward” in 2002
Organised by London Borough of Croydon & the MET
Presentation by Dr. V Padi
3. “Effective Parenting”
Presentation to Croydon Magistrates in June 2002
Edited by Dr. V Padi
4. Chairing of numerous Achievement Award events to Pupils and students in schools and colleges across London.
5. Assemblies taken in various schools in the London Borough if Haringey.
Television Programs
6. “Supporting Successful education”
Telewest, November 2000
Interview with Dr. Padi
7. “The Class Apart”
Channel 4 television education series program on Ryan Bell in 2002. Major acknowledgement of Dr. Vince Padi’s contribution.
Evaluation and Report
These are measured in terms of the feedback given by the clients.
