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FE Experts Writing Peer To Peer About The Future Of Education
FE News Feature Articles - Exclusive Peer to Peer thought leadership articles written by leading experts about the future of education and the future of work. #futureofeducation #futureofwork.
Skills to Fight Back – Where’s the P…
Jul 10, 2020 / Featured Article
Graham Hasting-Evans from @NOCNGroup discusses the Chancellors Summer Economic Statement COVID-19 presents the greatest challenge to our Country since World War Two. Accordingly, we need actions that match up to the...
How will our experiences of the Covid-19…
Jul 10, 2020 / Featured Article
Distance learning has taken a huge leap forward in the past decade with the evolution of tech-aided solutions. Even before the Covid-19 lockdown, there was an increasing demand for virtual...
Cash is King……or is it?
Jul 09, 2020 / Featured Article
Cash is king, is an often-used statement in the commercial world. And it is true, businesses do not fail because of lack of profit but due to a lack of...
New English Apprenticeship incentives - …
Jul 08, 2020 / Featured Article
So the English Apprenticeship ‘guarantee’ is here And although it isn’t a guarantee. It is a series of welcome incentives for employers though: £1,000 for taking providing unpaid work-experience for a Trainee £1,000...
End-point Assessment Organisation perspe…
Jul 08, 2020 / Featured Article
End-point assessment organisations (EpAOs) are subject to external quality assurance (EQA), and there are currently 4 types of EQA provider (employer led, professional body, Ofqual or the IfATE). The recent...
What prevents college principals from ac…
Jul 07, 2020 / Featured Article
How to put out fires with… strategy What prevents college principals from achieving educational provision of the highest quality? This doesn’t have to be a question you idly wonder about like...
Driving the Future of Work through Work-…
Jul 07, 2020 / Featured Article
The start to 2020 has possibly been the most disruptive period in recent memory. As practitioners and participants involved in work-based learning (WBL), we have experienced both a period of...
What Is The Missing Link For Evolution O…
Jul 06, 2020 / Featured Article
How reflection can be embedded into the #TLevel course In the first of the two articles in this series we looked at an overview of the upcoming T Level offering and...
G20 Thoughts on the post-pandemic world:…
Jul 06, 2020 / Featured Article
The G20 is chaired this year by Saudi Arabia. That was always going to be interesting. But then came COVID 19. Very sensibly the secretariat tore up much of the...
Is the integrity of the GCSE quality sta…
Jul 04, 2020 / Featured Article
While the economic impact of Covid-19 has been felt acutely across the globe, research carried out by organisations such as the Resolution Foundation has demonstrated that it is our young...
The Ticking Time-Bomb of Post Furlough S…
Jul 03, 2020 / Featured Article
During the Andrew Marr Show on @BBC last weekend, whilst I was munching on my cereal, former Labour Leader Ed Miliband was challenged on the cost of further government support...
Content is good, but it’s how we teach…
Jul 03, 2020 / Featured Article
While a phased approach for students returning to school is in full swing, and normal attendance resuming from September, there is still a large emphasis on the role of technology...
Traditional academic learning has got to…
Jul 02, 2020 / Featured Article
#StandUpForSkills - Recovery and Resilience: Reskilling Our Way Back into Work It's very apt that [this Recovery and Resilience report] comes on the back of the prime minister only this week talking about...
How can we support the Class of 2020 Uni…
Jul 02, 2020 / Featured Article
The class of 2020 are graduating at a time unlike any we have known. Although at this stage the true scale of the economic fallout from covid-19 is still unclear...
#SkillsSkillsSkills - Guaranteeing appre…
Jul 02, 2020 / Featured Article
This week Robert Halfon MP for Harlow presented his vision for delivering the apprenticeship guarantee at an event organised by the Edge Foundation and chaired by journalist and television presenter...
Three things we learned from the latest …
Jul 02, 2020 / Featured Article
Local labour markets have been affected in different ways by Coronavirus, calling for locally tailored recovery policies around employment and skills The last three weeks have been rich in publications revealing...
Fully online learning deliveries: ‘Mor…
Jul 01, 2020 / Featured Article
The current global plague – COVID-19 – has accelerated teaching and learning across all the education sectors. The acceleration towards forms of online deliveries requires consideration. Perhaps, teaching and learning or pedagogy...
How to take blended learning into the fu…
Jun 30, 2020 / Featured Article
Four months ago, telling a group of teachers that they had a week to completely alter their delivery to online could almost be dangerous, but throwing teachers into the deep-end...
Anne Milton - So how do we encourage peo…
Jun 30, 2020 / Featured Article
Often forgotten, the Cinderella service end of education and yet such an opportunity waiting in the wings. For too many people adult education will inspire a vague memory of night...
What do End-point Assessment Organisatio…
Jun 29, 2020 / Featured Article
In June 2020 I carried out a short survey of EpAOs, asking what they would find most valuable from an EQA provider. The survey was completed by 50 EpAOs (17%...
Dear Diary, Today I Learned About Reflec…
Jun 29, 2020 / Featured Article
‘Reflection’, What Exactly Is It? Whilst I was in the middle of writing this article, I turned on the news to hear the latest Corona-update from Boris and the gang. Professor...
How to repurpose the furlough scheme to …
Jun 27, 2020 / Featured Article
@TomBewick argues that in a post-COVID world, financial resources for #reskilling should be put in the hands of individuals, not institutions It is rare these days for governments to get much...
We Need to Make it Easier for Businesses…
Jun 26, 2020 / Featured Article
Last week (19 Jun) @EducationGovUK announced a billion pound funding for a COVID19 catch-up plan to tackle the impact of lost teaching time. Children in England are set to benefit from a £1 billion Covid...
We now have a huge unemployment challeng…
Jun 26, 2020 / Featured Article
Employment Response to Coronavirus: An Independent Report Our minds adjust quickly, to major paradigm shifts. Phrases like ‘the new normal’ are becoming clichéd, but we’re starting to know what they mean...
Understanding evidence use in the learni…
Jun 25, 2020 / Featured Article
Using evidence to inform decisions across FE and adult learning is more important than ever. In a post-pandemic world where investment decisions need to be made rapidly, it’s essential that...
#BlackLivesMatter, what does this means …
Jun 25, 2020 / Featured Article
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.” Albert Einstein The recent murder of George Floyd in America has led to a global protest for justice. I reflect...
New, Next or Never Normal? Figuring Out …
Jun 24, 2020 / Featured Article
There’s no going back. There, now you don’t need to read the rest of this article. But seriously, I am writing this from a sunny retreat in my garden having...
The Government must act to improve socia…
Jun 24, 2020 / Featured Article
Apprenticeships deliver social mobility. That’s something everyone agrees with. There is a mountain of evidence to confirm the benefits for workplace learners: enhanced career earnings, continued education and richer, more fulfilled...
Combating the challenges of training eng…
Jun 24, 2020 / Featured Article
These are unprecedented times for the manufacturing industry. As organisations refocussed their efforts on introducing and navigating new ways of working, I faced a challenge of my own: ‘How could...
The recent Social Mobility Commission re…
Jun 23, 2020 / Featured Article
Coronavirus has held up a mirror to our society, showing us the best and worst of ourselves. The recent Social Mobility Commission report offers three lessons to help us build...
Neurodiversity: How to Facilitate Learne…
Jun 23, 2020 / Featured Article
My introduction to neurodiversity was when I was diagnosed with dyslexia at university. The term “neurodiversity” is used to describe the cognitive diversity of the human brain. It acknowledges the...
You can stick your ‘New Normal’
Jun 22, 2020 / Featured Article
Everywhere you go (not literally!) it’s ‘new normal’ this and ‘new normal’ that and constant speculation about what the ‘new normal’ may or may not look like. Well quite frankly...
T Levelling Up: The “Levelling Up” A…
Jun 22, 2020 / Featured Article
#TLevels Are Ready For Take-Off The impressive new T levels are sitting on the launch-pad ready for take-off, one of the few things that can actually take off in these unprecedented times...
Implementing strategies to improve reten…
Jun 20, 2020 / Featured Article
It used to be said that inspections of training providers could be ‘won and lost on your data’ and that data ‘told the story of performance’ and better still, ‘numbers...
Reconceptualising teacher education to i…
Jun 19, 2020 / Featured Article
Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy This series of articles is taken from the research monograph, Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy: Knowledge and Experiences (Loo, 2019). The first article centred on...
T Levels in a time of Turmoil
Jun 19, 2020 / Featured Article
@EducationGovUK and @GillianKeegan confirm plans for #TLevels 2020 are on track DfE and the Skills Minister Gillian Keegan have recently confirmed that plans for T Levels 2020 are on track. Providers...
How Remote Assessment has shone during C…
Jun 18, 2020 / Featured Article
Remote assessment is nothing new to Training Qualifications UK; it’s not even new to the sector. We’ve been keen advocates of it for a little over three years now; ever...
Developing world-class skills: supportin…
Jun 17, 2020 / Featured Article
Lockdown restrictions are being increasing eased across the UK, but the same cannot be said for the pressures facing young people. That is why this week, we have reinforced the commitment...
Further Education must be part of the ef…
Jun 16, 2020 / Featured Article
Further Education can help Londoners to access opportunities in the city, but decades of underfunding have weakened London’s vocational and adult training offer. Now, in the face of a looming...
Are We All Career Coaches?
Jun 16, 2020 / Featured Article
In recent years, I feel there has been a shift happening, a kind of evolution if you will, a transformation of the traditional role of Careers Advisers, as being expert...
Finding a way to win – why does e-Asse…
Jun 15, 2020 / Featured Article
I'm absolutely delighted at the strides the FE sector has made with e-Assessment since my 2007 FE News article. No matter that C-19 is an existential threat to the FE...
The art of the possible in end-point ass…
Jun 13, 2020 / Featured Article
Over the last 2-3 months there has been a huge amount of effort by employers, #EpAOs, External Quality Assurance (#EQA) providers and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (@IFAteched)...
An “apprenticeship guarantee” would …
Jun 12, 2020 / Featured Article
Last week, Boris Johnson told the nation that young people “should be guaranteed an apprenticeship” as part of the country’s recovery from Covid-19. The idea of an “apprenticeship guarantee” is...
Learning the hard way: How the COVID-19 …
Jun 12, 2020 / Featured Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent financial shockwaves through much of the UK economy, including its further education (FE) sector. The UK's system of FE colleges provides technical and professional education and...
5 key considerations for making an appre…
Jun 11, 2020 / Featured Article
Robert Halfon @Halfon4harlowMP explains what he means by a guarantee of an apprenticeship for young people I've been campaigning on this for some time, and the reason is I think it would...
Likely ongoing and recurrent nature of e…
Jun 11, 2020 / Featured Article
As many students and colleges look forward to returning to face-to-face teaching, we need to take stock and prepare ourselves for the possibility of further bouts of remote home learning...
The ‘New Normal’ in Education
Jun 10, 2020 / Featured Article
Bag packed, lunch snacks fully stocked, computer screen lowered. Since lockdown measures were first implemented by the UK government in response to the coronavirus outbreak, most parents have swapped dropping...
Time to Think Again!
Jun 09, 2020 / Featured Article
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected everyone in the world and has forced every aspect of life to be completely rethought and whilst it will be some time before we can...
How evidence-informed practice and EdTec…
Jun 08, 2020 / Featured Article
I recently read an article in FE News titled ‘How Education Technology Works for Every Learning Style’ and followed a few of the threads on Twitter from the educational community...
It is vital that apprenticeships are ass…
Jun 06, 2020 / Featured Article
On Wednesday's daily Government briefing, referring to the impact the COVID-19 crisis could have on youth unemployment, Prime Minister @BorisJohnson said: "For young people in particular, for whom the risk is highest of...
Designing Online Enrolment Processes for…
Jun 05, 2020 / Featured Article
The Best Platform For Online Enrolment is People Back in 2013 along with Chris Evans, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Warwick and Dr Chris Davies, educationalist now...
An Apprenticeship Guarantee: Is it the n…
Jun 04, 2020 / Featured Article
Will we get a #SeptemberPromise? As the country opens up again, it feels a bit like we are returning back to a house after a storm to survey the damage. What state...
Colleges, Coronavirus and Communication
Jun 03, 2020 / Featured Article
So how’s it been for you? The world of college communications has been turned upside down in the current crisis. We’re all largely huddled at home, peering into our devices, trying...
Should you be using furlough to consider…
Jun 02, 2020 / Featured Article
The coronavirus pandemic has shocked the world of work: from working from home becoming the new norm, to millions of people being furloughed, to business plans having to be rethought...
The Dawn of FE’s Digital Age?
Jun 01, 2020 / Featured Article
In just a few months, the FE landscape has changed beyond recognition. Previously full colleges and classrooms have disappeared and in their place we’ve seen a complete shift to distance...
Developing Apprentices' Wellbeing
May 29, 2020 / Featured Article
The difficult times we face mean that HR professionals working in early careers will have to grapple with many challenges as we come to terms with the new world that...
Coronavirus has accelerated demand to im…
May 28, 2020 / Featured Article
From Primary to Further and Higher Education - COVID-19 is driving the #EdTech revolution Coronavirus has accelerated demand to improve the global education system’s resilience to future shocks. To meet this demand...
Supporting innovation for recovery
May 27, 2020 / Featured Article
Adapting to global reconstruction and reinvention through fostering regional networks of competence There is general assent that the present pandemic has accelerated economic and social changes that had been anticipated in...
Learning from the SME’s reshaping our …
May 26, 2020 / Featured Article
The waves that the Levy and new Standards caused across the vocational education world now seem like ripples in a pond compared to the tsunami of Covid19. Yet, the resilience...
Coronavirus – The New Normal & How…
May 26, 2020 / Featured Article
An Existential Challenge Right now, leadership looks and feels vastly different than it did just a few weeks ago – So, welcome to the new normal and the challenges this presents. “The...
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