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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While the latest statistics show that the number of 16 to 24 year olds not in employment, education or training has dipped below the one…
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Any opportunity for young people to develop a new skill or craft, to excel in a chosen subject or to build expertise in a business…
A single route to becoming a qualified teacher through QTS risks a more comprehensive ‘professional teacher status’, says Toni Fazaeli, chief executive of the Institute…
Earlier this month, I was fortunate to be part of a special Apprenticeship Week event, during which I shadowed apprentices working in a hairdressing salon…
As college principals digest the early information on funding allocations for 2010/11 adult provision, the prevailing mood is one of anger. Cuts are at best…
Some would say that Lord Leitch challenged what he saw as the complacent established view of a good enough learning and skills provision. “Economically valuable…
When the news came from Melbourne in May 2007 that we had won the UK wide bid to host WorldSkills 2011 in London, I was…
One of the most challenging reports published last year for those concerned with performance at work was the MacLeod Review of employee engagement. Coming at…
Following the enactment in November of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act, the responsibility for commissioning and funding 16-19 education and training is set…
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