ICAEW's research into mid-tier accountancy firms found that, while firms expect AI to reduce demand for some early-career tasks, most do not anticipate an overall...
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A learner asked me a question this year that every teacher in the sector will recognise, or soon will: if the software is intelligent, why...
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There are now 11 applicants for every degree apprenticeship place in England, up from 3 just three years ago, according to government data. That competition...
Every year, apprenticeship providers brace themselves for a new set of funding rules. The annual ritual is familiar: download the document, highlight the changes, update...
Using AI to help draft a lesson plan is one thing. Using it to assess whether a prospective learner should study at Level 2 or...
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I’ve discussed the minimum core in a previous article. However, I felt it would be useful to revisit it, since it is specifically included in…
The latest Skills Funding Letter from the Skills Minister to the Chief Executive of the SFA sets out the budgets for skills for the next…
In any conversation about further education (FE) and skills, it’s impossible to escape the topic we British so often like to avoid: money. What’s surely…
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Recently Roger Francis of Creative Learning Partners articulated an argument for an end to subcontracting. While there are undoubtedly some sharp practices creating salacious headlines,…
According to Gilles Deleuze ‘Si vous étes pris dans le réve de l’autre, vous étez foutou’ (‘If you are caught in the dream of the…
Latest labour market statistics published this week show that there are half a million more people in employment now then at this time a year…
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The manner by which the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) distributes government cash to training providers, has long been the subject of debate and criticism. In…
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