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David Rowse

David is the father of three grown up children and three grandchildren.

After completing National Service in Germany he entered the teaching profession and spent 27 years working in Birmingham schools, mainly with disadvantaged and vulnerable children.

In 1990 he took early retirement, which allowed him to focus on this work, and with other colleagues founded a registered charity called Values Education for Life.

Since then the charity has established two schools, one in Birmingham and the other in Nuneaton, each providing an education for children who were failing to achieve and in danger of social and educational exclusion. David is now in the process of establishing a third school in the midlands area.

During this time he was also privileged to be elected chair of the Values Education Council of the UK and later became one of its Vice Presidents. He has also taught training courses to undergraduate level as a Lecturer of Birmingham University and has received an international award in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the moral development and well-being of many children at risk of exclusion. David has presented 'papers' at international conferences, including St Louis, Boston, Pasadena, Montreal, Utrecht, Barcelona and Harvard.

David was editor of the magazine “Ethos” for many years. He established this publication in 2010 and through this promoted the concept of education based on ethical principles and values of social justice, equality, charity, democracy and mutuality. This magazine was widely distributed free of charge both here and abroad to educational institutions that wished to know more about how these principles might be implemented at a practical level in their educational establishments.

David is currently chair of the trustees of the charity and provides much of the vision which has provided Values Education for Life with its unique and distinctive identity.

John Eyre