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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.
Blazing a trail for the UK: Representing…
Sep 19, 2020 / Featured Article
To be selected to represent the UK at EuroSkills, Europe’s largest skills competition, feels fantastic. To be the first apprentice, along with my teammate Kamil Zmich, to represent the UK...
Why adding cybersecurity to the curricul…
Sep 18, 2020 / Featured Article
We must equip students with #cybersecurity skills to prepare for a post COVID world No one could have predicted the devastating impact COVID-19 had on businesses across the world. The almost...
A more flexible future driven by student…
Sep 17, 2020 / Featured Article
The reopening of schools and colleges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland this month has been called a pivotal moment in the pandemic. After lockdown and the summer holiday, children...
Careers education in the new normal
Sep 16, 2020 / Featured Article
It has been nearly five years since the Government established the Careers & Enterprise Company (@CareerEnt). During that time, a lot has changed in the way we as a country...
Why we need a Kickstart to employer enga…
Sep 15, 2020 / Featured Article
It feels like it’s been a long wait for significant announcements about employment programmes to address the impending Covid unemployment crisis. Kickstart has, in general, been greeted positively as an...
Now is the time for T Levels, a bright s…
Sep 14, 2020 / Featured Article
In amongst all the challenges of summer exams, reopening and lost learning there has been a bright spark of something new and exciting in the college world this week. Hundreds of...
How Can Machine Learning Help the Teachi…
Sep 14, 2020 / Featured Article
This week (14-18 Sept) is Artificial Intelligence (#AI) and Machine Learning (#ML) Week @AWS_Edu, Head of Education, Paul Grist explains how Machine Learning can help teachers and improve student outcomes: The COVID-19...
Under-representation of Black Academics …
Sep 12, 2020 / Featured Article
As the murder of George Floyd propelled the conversation on racial prejudice to the forefront of societal discourse, many have begun to turn their attentions to the systematic racism that...
Covid19, Unemployment and Suicide - a Ve…
Sep 11, 2020 / Featured Article
If you don’t mind, please indulge me while I kick off with an introduction - I suspect that most readers have never heard of me (@BDLDKevin) or my organisation before. My...
How AI Affects Working Professional Educ…
Sep 10, 2020 / Featured Article
Even before the pandemic, businesses were increasingly investing in AI and data science to improve efficiency, decision making and automate more processes. Like with so much else, COVID-19 and its...
Initial Teacher Education: Commencing Yo…
Sep 10, 2020 / Featured Article
Reflecting in and on action and an academic year like no other as educators, we are all beginning to return to a new intake of learners, adapting our pedagogical approaches...
Engaging with student recruits in a post…
Sep 09, 2020 / Featured Article
Video Marketing is more crucial than ever for student recruitment. Due to COVID-19 and the safety measures that will be in place for the coming year, traditional student recruitment practices...
KickStart Lite: SME Free
Sep 09, 2020 / Featured Article
I started writing these pieces, first on LinkedIn then, taking the opportunity to get them out to a wider audience through FE News, to share the findings of my dissertation...
Black FE Leadership Group: If not us, wh…
Sep 08, 2020 / Featured Article
As a member of the recently formed Black @FELeadership Group (BFELG), I am hugely encouraged by the response to and engagement with our Open Letter since its circulation last month. For the...
Reflecting on the digital benefits of lo…
Sep 07, 2020 / Featured Article
As a mother and educator, I am acutely aware of challenges, hardships and tragedy brought about by the health crisis we have all living with for the past six months. Like...
Technology has the answers, as education…
Sep 05, 2020 / Featured Article
As schools re-open, exam results are botched and universities scramble to survive, the fragility and outdatedness of our education infrastructure has become crystal clear. In just the past week, we've seen...
Adults can't get better qualifications i…
Sep 04, 2020 / Featured Article
It’s brilliant to hear Alex Stevenson (@LWalexs) from @LearnWorkUK talking about the importance of adult education, especially for essential skills like English and maths. It is a sad fact that around one...
GSCE & A Level fiasco - What can sch…
Sep 04, 2020 / Featured Article
With the #GSCE and #ALevel fiasco making front page news, schools, colleges, universities and their governors are increasingly facing threats of bad publicity in relation to action that has been...
The challenges facing the youth employme…
Sep 04, 2020 / Featured Article
As we begin to emerge from the social and economic chrysalis of lockdown, it is clear that the road to recovery will be long and arduous. There is good reason...
Unlocking the post-Covid potential of ap…
Sep 04, 2020 / Featured Article
The A level results season revealed much about our prevailing national mind-set and attitudes to learning and qualifications. Amid the outcry and confusion about school leavers’ prospects for admission to university...
The End Of The Class System: Is It Time …
Sep 03, 2020 / Featured Article
Dear, Oh Dearing! The Dearing Report in 1997 on the future of higher education insisted that “students and employers must be able to rely on the value, quality and standards of...
The benefits of using personalised learn…
Sep 02, 2020 / Featured Article
With school closures, cancelled exams and remote learning, it has been a challenging year for aspiring university students. Still despite the odds, universities have seen a rise in the number of learners planning to...
Concerns, Costs, and Caution: How Can We…
Sep 01, 2020 / Featured Article
For both university staff and prospective students, the future looks daunting. Universities across the UK are still going through a period of transition, adapting to the ‘new normal’ and negotiating...
A couple of thoughts on the science and …
Aug 31, 2020 / Featured Article
Wouldn’t it be great if we discovered there were laws of leadership just like the laws of physics? If there were, we wouldn’t lose time pondering a myriad specific, irrelevant details...
Why adults benefit from GCSEs too
Aug 29, 2020 / Featured Article
Good GCSEs in English and maths are essential for young people’s progression in learning and into work, so last week’s vigorous debate on how this year’s grades should be awarded...
De-idolising the A level and its associa…
Aug 28, 2020 / Featured Article
The recent headline that teacher assessments are to be used in lieu of an algorithmic calculation of A level grades is to be welcomed. After all, where best to look for...
Why Project Based Learning prepares stud…
Aug 28, 2020 / Featured Article
The business of creativity If you’re new to education and haven’t discovered the most watched TED talk of all time ‘Do schools kill creativity?’ by Sir Ken Robinson I would highly...
University Grade Inflation: It All Start…
Aug 27, 2020 / Featured Article
Ah! The Class of '92! Becks, Scholesy, Gary Neville.……..no, no, not that class! This article is about the other Class of '92; Trent, Hallam, John Moores. The Series: This is the third...
If universities think like modern brands…
Aug 26, 2020 / Featured Article
According to @CommunicatorEd the line between education and digital is getting fuzzier, and bringing into question the traditional meaning of a university: The idea of teachers on TikTok may sound cringeworthy to the...
2020 - an educational odyssey?
Aug 25, 2020 / Featured Article
It doesn’t really matter – students need us to move on In August 1980 I entered my career in education, or at least I began to learn the trade of teaching...
COVID-19: Challenges facing further educ…
Aug 25, 2020 / Featured Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged numerous sectors of the global economy, with many industries potentially unrecognisable in the ‘new normal’. This health crisis is challenging us globally, but we should...
FE News Exclusive Thought Leadership and…
Aug 24, 2020 / Featured Article
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...
Careers Advisers – Are We Ready For Th…
Aug 24, 2020 / Featured Article
Since March 2020, the vast majority of career services, and providers such as schools, colleges and universities transferred all their services to providing a service remotely. For our own health and...
The GCSE and A-levels fiasco exposes ine…
Aug 22, 2020 / Featured Article
After a turbulent fortnight of unprecedented examination awards, GCSE results day went relatively smoothly. But make no mistake: the whole process has been shambolic, and has exposed major challenges and...
What skills do young people really need?
Aug 22, 2020 / Featured Article
Today, young people worldwide are finding it increasingly difficult to enter the workforce, let alone thrive within it. Currently, global youth unemployment stands at a shocking 75 million, and that...
There have been many valuable learning e…
Aug 21, 2020 / Featured Article
Apprentice training providers are putting measures in place to protect and encourage effective learning in the new environment Marketing apprenticeships have had significant disruption to their study plans over the last...
The message still isn’t getting throug…
Aug 21, 2020 / Featured Article
As hundreds of thousands of students across the UK receive their GCSE results this week, many will still be considering what their options are when it comes to building the...
5 ways to bring your company culture to …
Aug 21, 2020 / Featured Article
Covid-19 has forced many workforces across the globe to work from home, making it an unusual time to be a new starter, especially if you’re a graduate entering the world...
Artificial Intelligence: How Grade Infla…
Aug 20, 2020 / Featured Article
Race To The Bottom The Series: This is the second of a four-part series on university #GradeInflation; we’ll explore the evidence, the underlying causes, the defence by universities and the possible ways...
Why now’s the best time to rethink our…
Aug 20, 2020 / Featured Article
Exam results day. This annual event is stressful enough at the best of times. Imagine then, how much more stressful it is when a global pandemic has prevented you from...
The AI Exam Algorithm is not to blame - …
Aug 19, 2020 / Featured Article
#ALevel and #GCSE #ResultsDay - A Low Moral Ebb On Monday 17 August FE News published a piece on a lack of ethics in AI[1] which I co-authored. Between the writing and the...
Fallout from GCSE results: How are we en…
Aug 19, 2020 / Featured Article
In a follow up to my article on ‘Is there a future for teaching black british history?’ a number of comments and questions have been raised. One of which is how...
WorldSkills UK’s actions to help impro…
Aug 19, 2020 / Featured Article
The Black Further Education Leadership Group (@FeLeadership) is right: we have to take shared responsibility to address racial inequality across the sector because without doing so, we cannot truly create...
How we can put new money for nursing deg…
Aug 18, 2020 / Featured Article
£172 million new funding to double nursing #apprentices Money talks, and if the attendance at the information sharing event on the new funding for nurse degree apprentices is anything to go...
Britain is on its way to experiencing an…
Aug 18, 2020 / Featured Article
Workers in labour-intensive and lower-paid sectors will be hardest hit Before the onset of Covid-19 and nationwide ‘lockdowns,’ nearly one-in-five UK workers were in a sector that would be temporarily shut...
Why universities must see digital learni…
Aug 17, 2020 / Featured Article
The controversy surrounding the grading of this year’s A-level results in Scotland and the rest of the UK are merely another stage in a year of radical change for the...
A call for ethics in the curriculum
Aug 17, 2020 / Featured Article
The ethical implications of #AI Silvia (co-author) is far more sophisticated in her use of LinkedIn than am I. She did a quick survey of her Network: Do you consider ethical aspects...
Teaching digital skills to young people …
Aug 16, 2020 / Featured Article
As #ALevelResults are revealed, it’s vital that we teach digital skills to young people to future proof their futures and our economic growth We know that COVID-19 has and will continue...
The A-level fiasco is an assault on soci…
Aug 15, 2020 / Featured Article
“Is this the biggest education f***-up ever?” asked TES editor Ann Mroz, after watching a barrage of heartbreak, fury and frustration erupt on social media in the wake of this...
It is unacceptable for young people to p…
Aug 13, 2020 / Featured Article
#ResultsDay 2020 - A fog of uncertainty has created a new peak of anger and worry Before coronavirus, too many young people from poorer backgrounds were shut out of opportunities to...
Will A First Class Education Spell The D…
Aug 13, 2020 / Featured Article
The Fluff A very good friend of mine, Jeremy, who is responsible for the recruitment of high flyers into his organisation, told me recently that he doesn’t bother looking at the...
It is time to reboot apprenticeships
Aug 12, 2020 / Featured Article
Cushioned by the security of paid employment, the chance to build new skills, and the prospect of a job beyond that, apprenticeships are powerful agents of progress. They increase employability...
Seeing the Employment and Skills System …
Aug 12, 2020 / Featured Article
While it’s not good to mix metaphors, amidst our challenges with Covid-19, the themes of woods, trees and reforestation seem apt. The lockdown(s) and social restrictions could be likened to devastating...
Workplace learning comes home with thous…
Aug 11, 2020 / Featured Article
The Covid-19 pandemic, and the resulting lockdown, has meant a huge number of changes for working people across the UK, with many workers were forced to remain at home. Unionlearn traditionally...
EQA - The hard work starts now
Aug 11, 2020 / Featured Article
Since the outset of the #ApprenticeshipReforms, @AELPUK has pushed hard in terms of raising concerns about the fragmented approach to external quality assurance of the end point assessment system. Therefore...
Three Ways to Embrace a Virtual ‘Hybri…
Aug 10, 2020 / Featured Article
While many businesses are beginning to return to familiar office environments, it also seems likely that we will see the long-term, broad emergence of a ‘hybrid’ workforce, where remote and...
Partnership working in employment servic…
Aug 07, 2020 / Featured Article
Key findings from international research on partnership working between Public Employment Services and other labour market intermediaries and service providers, with a particular focus on Jobcentre Plus. Extensive and effective...
Kick Starter or non-starter?
Aug 05, 2020 / Featured Article
As I was completing my previous piece it was announced the government was investing £2.1bn in a work experience scheme for young people, Kick Start. In that piece I reviewed...
FE and Skills: Preparing for the new aca…
Aug 04, 2020 / Featured Article
John Hughes’ cult classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, would have looked very different had it been set in 2020. At the point the film’s titular character, having decided to skip...
#FEResearchMeet goes Virtual
Aug 03, 2020 / Featured Article
As partners in all things research, Kerry Scattergood and I first met and connected through our roles on the Society of Education Practitioner Advisory Group and have since gone on...
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