From the end of 2023, until the beginning of 2025, I was leading a piece of research titled Appreciating and Supporting Neurodiversity for the New...
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The idea that a career in research is becoming obsolete is easy to understand. It is also wrong, but not for the reasons you might expect. Behind the debate about research careers lies a more...
It’s Youth Employment Week, and in a special feature for FE News, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members Adrian Wookey,...
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#BuildTheFuture with women in STEM: the importance of diversifying engineering teams on the path to achieving our net-zero target Late last year, I gave a…
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The idea of “professionalisation” means different things to different people and industries but generally speaking, professionalisation might involve a code of conduct and/or ethics, skills…
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