About
Trustees
The International Values-based Education Trust, known as the IVET Foundation, is a UK registered charity.
Reg No: 1159650
It is completely independent of any social, political or religious organisation.
Meet our Trustees:
Dr Neil Hawkes Founder
Neil's vision is of a world where humanity lives in harmony with itself and the natural world.
Bridget Knight
Bridget is the CEO of Values-based Education (VbE), IVET's major transformational Education Philosophy and practices.
Sue Jones
Sue is the Senior Adviser for Values-based Education (VbE) having been an experienced headteacher.
Jane Hawkes
Jane is a presenter of Values-based Living, based on her work globally as a psychotherapist .
Patrons
The IVET Foundation is fortuate to have a group of Patrons who are outstanding both professionally and personally. They are such excellent role models for values-based living.
Meet our Patrons
Professor Mick Waters
Global adviser to national governments on education and social development.
Professor Ruth Crick
Professor of Learning Analytics and Educational Leadership
Professor Bart McGettrict
Emeritus Professor of Education and Dean Emeritus, of the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow.
Sir John Jones
Outstanding educator and former secondary school headteacher.
Professor Richard Pring
Emeritus Director of the Education Department at Oxford University.
Professor Mark Chater
Professor of Worldviews Education, University of Cumbria.
Why are Patron's involved with the IVET Foundation?
Professor McGettrict told us...
"This Trust is a focal point for those who wish to share contemporary thinking and engage in discussion about the centrality of values in education and in a caring society. The promotion of education which is inspired by a sense of love for "the other"; the conviction of a society of hope; and striving for justice in the world will provide a strategic framework for all who are concerned with social change. The activities of this trust advance this mission, and provides support for all who are committed to this vision of a better world through improving the life chances of young people."
Professor Ruth Crick says...
"More than ever before we need to re-learn how to design for, facilitate and reward those distinctive intelligences which makes us more fully human – meaning making, purpose, relationships, ethical discernment, intuition, and imagination. ThiIn the age of artificial intelligence, that which makes us distinctively human should form the overall purpose of education. And this does not have to be at the expense of evidence and reason because human rationality and evidence are servants not kings. Redressing this balance across all our social and political systems is a pressing challenge and one which IVET is successfully leaning into, creating a global movement for human centric strategic change."
Professor Mark Chater told us...
"Of course children need to grow up with values, and of course society needs living values which grow and evolve with the children. Society is not a grown-up place at the moment. Playground retaliation in the middle east, online bullying, political leaders cheating, lying and complaining when found out: where are the role models, where is the honest discourse about how we live? Thankfully, IVET and its affiliates are providing spaces where values can be explored with integrity, where wisdom, compassion, balance, self-control and courage, along with many other values, can be taught, modelled and developed. Values can become habits. Habits can become destinies. This is important work. If ever we are tempted to despair, we need to remember that this is happening day after day in our values-based schools, and increasingly in companies, skilfully led, building little by little. Let's have more!"