My work has largely centred on helping adults develop the digital skills they need to move towards further learning and employment. Alongside my professional practice...
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...
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Employers are notoriously short on time, and even shorter on patience when faced with bureaucracy and red tape. They want to spend every moment concentrating…
“Not only will Cinderella go to the ball, but she has met her prince,” John Hayes, minister of state for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong…
Teachers and trainers across further education and skills are essential to the government’s Budget 2010 ambition of “rebalancing the economy and creating the conditions for…
It is with a tinge of sadness and a measure of pride that I write this, my final column as Association of Colleges’ President, before…
It is a question that often comes to the fore and recently it has been asked once again: Does the private sector invest sufficiently in…
When the Programme for Coalition Government was published at the end of May it promised to ‘set colleges free from direct state control’, and last…
It is a great pleasure to be able to congratulate UK Skills on its achievement of winning a silver medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show…
I have long been a believer in the power of learning and its ability to transform and enrich the lives of individuals and their communities.…
There is a strong consensus that, across the public sector, protecting and investing in the front line is the top priority. Further education and skills…
London played host to the world’s most famous flower show last month. From May 25-29, RHS Chelsea Flower Show took place at the Royal Hospital…
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