To continue the camping theme from part one in this series, even if you think you have all the equipment and have predicted all the...
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...
Party conference season is one of the few points in the political calendar when politicians, policymakers, employers, think tanks and organisations from across the public...
The government's plans for young people will go further if they are built around the colleges already providing technical pathways, work placements and apprenticeships, argues...
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...
I’m writing this just before heading off on a family camping trip to Yorkshire, which means the house is currently a chaotic blend of optimism,...
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...
Provider achievement rates receive significant attention from boards, governors and executive teams because they provide a straightforward indication of overall performance. They are often one...
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With the US election next week, I’m reminded of Barack Obama’s historic pre-Presidential mantra of “Change we can believe in”. Four years on, US voters…
How do we engage more people in learning? We have plenty of stories of people getting bitten by the highly infectious ‘learning bug’ which has…
It’s encouraging to see that the latest reports from the Office for National Statistics have revealed a fall in unemployment, suggesting that Britain’s economy may…
This autumn, the early findings of the revised version of How Colleges Improve were made public at a LSIS event in Birmingham. In 2008 the original…
Every College academic year is different and the level of challenges facing the sector is at an unprecedented high. Equally, individual Colleges will face their…
A remarkable array of new technology-based tools for learning were explored at the Association for Learning Technology annual conference last month – from innovative games…
Last week the first real piece of further education loans publicity came across my desk–or more accurately my screen. Of course there have been many…
A gecko might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think about high-tech engineering, but the glue-free adhesive tape designed by…
To those of you who have read my previous columns, it will come as no surprise that I think there is a worrying mismatch between…
The education sector has been affected by the recent introduction of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (the “Act”). This has amended regulations on the…
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