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Adult learners are already investing in new careers; policy should turn that commitment into a connected journey from entry-level competence to higher technical progression. The...
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Ten academic years ago, I wrote for FE News about challenging stereotypes, inspired by the late MP Jo Cox. As another academic year begins, I...
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The financial pressures facing UK higher education have reached a point where we need to ask a more fundamental question: is the problem simply that universities...
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I don’t routinely open the Times Literary Supplement expecting to have my behaviour as a leader challenged. But recently a Philosophy professor was writing about…
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This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week – promoted by the Mental Health Foundation – comes at a time when the world is getting back to…
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The pandemic has brought about what has now been dubbed ‘the Great Resignation’. First coined in America, this trend has now spread across the globe.…
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