Very enjoyable first PgCert group meeting. Jon was very relaxed and made everyone feel at ease. We all wrote our names on post-its and then took it in terns to give our ‘5 minute’ presentations. A real mixture of ages and experience in the room, all arts based and all looking at making a difference with teaching. Here is the link to my presentation PgCert 5 slides We then discussed the two readings. The first was by Aldridge and the second by Holmwood. These were both very different, the first being very academic and the second much more accessible. With both readings I found looking up the terms using YouTube very useful. The Aldridge text reminded me very much of being at school again and felt baffled by the text. I really retained nothing despite re-reading this a couple of times. In contrast to this I really enjoyed the Holmwood text and felt enriched by learning about Meritocracy and Neo Liberalism.