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...
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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...
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Last Saturday I attended the annual City & Guilds Senior Awards Graduation Ceremony in London. I was fortunate enough be able to meet with and…
The past few years have seen an increasing drive to further raise the professional standards of those delivering teaching and learning. It seems universally agreed…
The largest ever survey of unionlearn, the TUC’s learning and skills organisation, published last week by Leeds University’s Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change…
City & Guilds published the second version of its Manifesto for Skills in November 2008 and we have followed this up with a series of…
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Well, I am not sure how many of us are caught up in the election buzz, or whether it is more of an election snooze……
It is a puzzling state of affairs if new policy introduced during a recession can mean that further education’s professional teachers and trainers, who are…
Further and higher education is fundamental to our national prosperity. To compete in the global marketplace, especially the highly skilled marketplace of tomorrow, it is…
Education should be at the heart of communities and should promote social and emotional well-being, equality, inclusion and responsibility. Schools need more freedom to frame…
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