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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.
How important is an alternative approach…
Nov 28, 2020 / Featured Article
Following the announcement of the global pandemic earlier this year, schools around the world closed their gates for the foreseeable future, not knowing if and when they would reopen. By...
Facilitating a new age of portfolio care…
Nov 27, 2020 / Featured Article
Pivoting Careers In the changed world economies post pandemic it is highly likely that the career options for most people will change quite substantially. It is likely that the gig economy will...
Skills and education system must be supp…
Nov 26, 2020 / Featured Article
@ukEdge response to #SpendingReview 2020 #SR20 In his own words, the Chancellor highlighted that the UK is facing an “economic emergency” as he revealed a set of sobering statistics on the...
Santa Sunak hasn't quite delivered on ou…
Nov 26, 2020 / Featured Article
With precisely one month to go until Christmas, yesterday (25 Nov) was the government’s spending review. In normal times, this would see the Chancellor donning a proverbial Santa suit handing out...
Why now is the time for education to foc…
Nov 26, 2020 / Featured Article
Schools and colleges do a great job of protecting their students, staff and facilities with appropriate physical security. But the recent — and rapid — transformation to remote teaching and...
The Spending Review and its impact on yo…
Nov 25, 2020 / Featured Article
One of the few things that everyone has agreed on during the pandemic is that it will take a heavy toll on jobs and that those who will be most...
Ensuring the Prime Minister’s Lifetime…
Nov 25, 2020 / Featured Article
Late September’s announcement of a new “lifetime skills guarantee” by Prime Minister Boris Johnson with the introduction in April 2021 of an extended level 3 entitlement for adults under the...
Using Skills Excellence to Build Back Be…
Nov 25, 2020 / Featured Article
@WorldskillsUK last week hosted its first ever International Skills Summit bringing together high-profile speakers from UK governments, education and business to promote the importance of delivering skills excellence to build...
Digital Leaders’ Programme – framing…
Nov 25, 2020 / Featured Article
This year has seen seismic changes to normal patterns of working and to our understanding of what digital technology can do for senior leaders, tutors and learners. The challenges posed...
1000 Opportunities - launch of the Good …
Nov 24, 2020 / Featured Article
#GYESymposium - Yesterday (23 Nov) Youth Employment UK held its first Good Youth Employment Symposium sessions, the first session was an introduction to youth unemployment and the current landscape with...
Build Back (Better)
Nov 24, 2020 / Featured Article
What a year. In 2020 every training provider has jumped through hoops to ensure that learners can keep learning, and complete their studies wherever possible. Ofqual and the ESFA have...
College marketing across the digital div…
Nov 24, 2020 / Featured Article
Addressing #DigitalPoverty before the learning process even starts During the 12 years I have been increasing student numbers in colleges it’s been very clear that their central ethos is the belief that...
Global Educational Policies must be unde…
Nov 23, 2020 / Featured Article
The impact of the #G20 2020, on Global Educational Policies @G20org The #G20RiyadhSummit concluded yesterday (22 Nov) with a global, but virtual conversation. Proposals on Education have been developed by the T20, the...
Urgently needed: employability and skill…
Nov 23, 2020 / Featured Article
The Work and Pensions Select Committee’s Inquiry DWP’s Preparations for Changes in the World of Work is an important one, focusing on digital and automation both in relation to changes...
Apprenticeship policy in England ‘requ…
Nov 21, 2020 / Featured Article
Hundreds of delegates recently attended the Future of Apprenticeships #FoA2020 online conference, produced by #SkillsWorldLive for the Federation of @AwardingBodies. Tom Bewick reflects on the day and argues that more...
We need College Networks to help agree i…
Nov 20, 2020 / Featured Article
The @AoC_info FE Summit and the launch of the England report of the Independent Commission on the College of the Future dominated my week and left me feeling excited and...
How CV-19 is shaping new edtech trends
Nov 20, 2020 / Featured Article
Since March this year, we’ve seen the edtech landscape transform as customers respond to shifting landscapes, finding new ways to support students at every level of the education system. We’ve...
Supporting students into the real world …
Nov 19, 2020 / Featured Article
As we head towards the end of 2020 (most of us with a huge sigh of relief), it is important to take the positives where possible, from this extremely challenging...
Keeping our children active has never be…
Nov 19, 2020 / Featured Article
COVID-19 has had a huge impact in countries all over the world: people have lost their jobs, families have been unable to see each other and millions of people have...
Engaging with employees in lockdown
Nov 19, 2020 / Featured Article
Effective leadership is tricky. But with Covid imposing enormous challenges for businesses, strong leadership and engagement is something all business owners are currently trying to get right. The latest UK national...
Collective Optimism: A great foundation …
Nov 18, 2020 / Featured Article
Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of The @OpenUniversity, welcomes the Independent Commission’s College of the Future – England report: Our colleges are national assets. Yet, despite the attention that the FE sector is...
From Easels to EdTech: The pandemic stor…
Nov 18, 2020 / Featured Article
The global Education landscape has taken an unprecedented turn as a result of Covid-19. The widespread halting of in-person learning across the world has driven digital innovation and adoption across...
Artificial Intelligence and its impact o…
Nov 18, 2020 / Featured Article
The current pandemic has seen organisations accelerating their investment in digital technology strategies to cope with new ways of working. It has also been an opportunity for businesses to rethink...
Why workplace degree programmes could be…
Nov 17, 2020 / Featured Article
A study from Save The Student found that 96% of all students surveyed have experienced issues at university since Covid-19 struck the UK. These range from mental and physical health...
It’s time for Government to ditch the …
Nov 17, 2020 / Featured Article
Pretty much every part of people’s lives has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic this year, with the job market as no exception. Indeed, with the Office for Budget Responsibility...
Reskilling a nation: how can we create p…
Nov 16, 2020 / Featured Article
The jobs crisis for young people is reaching a tipping point – with fresh reports suggesting that unemployment amongst 16- to 24-year-olds could be in the millions within weeks. The...
Passionate founder of leading training p…
Nov 16, 2020 / Featured Article
Qube Learning founder, Gavin Whichello, who made the training provider a national name, has passed away following a battle with illness, after recently turning 70. An entrepreneur with a long history...
Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguo…
Nov 14, 2020 / Featured Article
Careers Strategy 2020 due to be published very soon In each of the four home nations, four UK Ministers reflect on the impact of COVID on people’s lives and how the education...
Reversing the Apprenticeship Starts Decl…
Nov 14, 2020 / Featured Article
Long before the pandemic started earlier this year news about further education was often dominated by the year-on-year decline of Apprenticeships starts in England. In fact, the trend of decline...
Apprenticeships for a digital future: an…
Nov 13, 2020 / Featured Article
There is a fundamental paradox, if not a contradiction, at the heart of apprenticeships. Apprentices sign on to be introduced to work and the skills they need for the future...
The Digital Divide: What have we learnt …
Nov 12, 2020 / Featured Article
A year ago, no-one anticipated the environment in which we would be operating today. Although there is a silver lining in terms of the rapid adoption of forward-thinking learning and...
Opportunity for new Biden administration…
Nov 12, 2020 / Featured Article
All eyes have been on the U.S election with much excitement, trepidation and anticipation but with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, there is now the opportunity to...
Free Radicals. British Values vs The Dis…
Nov 11, 2020 / Featured Article
British Values, democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law, mutual respect and tolerance has long been a part of the UK education landscape in part as an attempt to address...
Is the hybrid classroom here to stay?
Nov 11, 2020 / Featured Article
A new era of hybrid education As is the case every year, this autumn thousands of students set their sights and ambitions on a brand new academic year. However, unlike previous...
Levelling Up The Skills Gap Should Mean …
Nov 10, 2020 / Featured Article
Hardly a day passes without another prediction of economic gloom resulting from the global pandemic. The picture is becoming a familiar one, with some consensual features. Most commentators agree that...
Colleges: a lot to learn from Northern I…
Nov 09, 2020 / Featured Article
The future success of Northern Ireland hangs in the balance. We were already facing enormous challenges - trying to decipher the impacts of Brexit, the implications of automation and of...
College of The Future: On Trend or Off T…
Nov 09, 2020 / Featured Article
As someone that has worked in FE since the 80s, I recognise the value of colleges. And undoubtedly colleges have the potential to play an important role in the post-Covid /...
Marcus Rashford’s food poverty campaig…
Nov 07, 2020 / Featured Article
Why #EndChildFoodPoverty should be a wake up call for everyone in education It’s both inspiring and profoundly depressing that a 22-year-old footballer has done more to raise public awareness of poverty...
Future of Apprenticeships: The biggest c…
Nov 06, 2020 / Featured Article
#FoA2020 - My end-point assessment reflections following the Future of Apprenticeships Conference On 5th November I took part in, but mostly listened to, the fantastic insights, thoughts, views and ideas from...
Apprenticeship, Social Mobility and the …
Nov 06, 2020 / Featured Article
What role should Apprenticeships have in supporting social mobility and the levelling-up agenda? Following on from the publication in the summer of UVAC’s report Skills: A Post Covid 19 System, October...
Time to take stock of what has happened …
Nov 06, 2020 / Featured Article
Where has been hardest hit economically by the first lockdown? Combining data from the use of the furlough scheme, unemployment related claims and job postings reveals which places are entering this...
Educationalists do NOT like the word “…
Nov 05, 2020 / Featured Article
Why engaging with employers is essential for #TLevel success When delivering training sessions recently to FE colleges on how to get local employers involved with T Levels, one thing became clear...
The impact of Covid-19 on the England Ap…
Nov 05, 2020 / Featured Article
#FoA2020 - The Future Of Apprenticeships 2020 I remember at age 13 attending secondary school open days and noticing a common trend across them all, every headteacher would brag about the...
Construction Training in a Pandemic
Nov 04, 2020 / Featured Article
Along with pretty much every other sector, COVID required construction training to adapt quickly and innovatively. Seven months on from lockdown and four from its easing, seems a good time...
Why we need to boost adult basic skills …
Nov 04, 2020 / Featured Article
Millions of adults took part in ‘lockdown learning’ but stark inequalities raise concerns about workers being left behind in post-covid economy. A leading think tank has called for urgent action to...
The nightmare before Christmas: Invest i…
Nov 03, 2020 / Featured Article
The British Retail Consortium (@the_BRC) has described the #retail industry as facing “a nightmare before Christmas” after the Government announced a second lockdown would take place in November. They believe it...
Why the ‘Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed’ Expe…
Nov 02, 2020 / Featured Article
We needed to tackle inequality in a way that is intrinsic to the way we operate. We finally worked out how.... Having spent the majority of my career as a psychology teacher...
Facing the major challenges of rapid dem…
Nov 02, 2020 / Featured Article
When I joined the #CollegeoftheFuture Commission last year, our society and economy faced a number of major challenges including rapid demographic change, technological revolution and social inequality. Society has since been...
Streamed your way through lockdown? This…
Oct 31, 2020 / Featured Article
Do you remember your first campfire experience? The sun’s gone down, you’re settled together with food and drink, you’re comfortable. And a campfire just wouldn’t be a campfire without a...
By continuing to support each other we c…
Oct 31, 2020 / Featured Article
Five ways to support #MentalHealth during challenging times Our daily lives, work and relationships have experienced huge upheaval due to the impact of COVID-19 in recent weeks. These unprecedented times are...
Failing to plug skills gaps will set us …
Oct 30, 2020 / Featured Article
As we reach the end of the eighth month of the pandemic, people’s attention naturally turns to how we emerge from the crisis - ensuring that people, employers and communities...
The Future of End Point Assessment, plus…
Oct 30, 2020 / Featured Article
I started my own End Point Assessment (#EPA) journey when I joined Innovate Awarding (@Innovate_Awards) as Managing Director in June 2017, so this feels like an ideal place to start...
The face of education needs a rethink: T…
Oct 30, 2020 / Featured Article
Rethinking the higher education sector - We must develop a ‘vaccine’ for our education system One of the many symptoms of Covid-19 has been its fatal effect on the status quo...
Commission’s Vision for the College of…
Oct 29, 2020 / Featured Article
Already on the road that the Commission on the #CollegeoftheFuture sets out for us As a big supporter of colleges, it a pleasure to welcome the publication of the UK-wide report...
Quality apprenticeships have #QualityEPA…
Oct 29, 2020 / Featured Article
2020 was always slated to be a landmark year for apprenticeships in England with the withdrawal of apprenticeship frameworks and wholesale shift to the new standard-based model. Back in 2012 when...
Gillian Keegan needs to free the Nationa…
Oct 29, 2020 / Featured Article
Unemployment is rising, the need for career guidance is greater than ever - £32 million funding must be made more accessible Back in early July, Rishi Sunak announced his Plan for...
What should HR do to promote wellbeing w…
Oct 28, 2020 / Featured Article
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, HR leaders are having to ask themselves questions they’ve never had to before. A key one being: “how do we address the blurred boundary...
Over a quarter of apprentices in the UK …
Oct 28, 2020 / Featured Article
Imagine driving a car that you couldn’t adjust for comfort or safety. The seating, the steering, the mirrors, the air con were fixed. No adjustment is possible for height or...
Tackling barriers to learning for disadv…
Oct 27, 2020 / Featured Article
On Tom Bewick’s topical and timely #SkillsWorld LIVE show last week (Episode 7, 22 October 2020), he asked the question ‘Are we doing enough for disadvantaged learners?’ The short...
Why we must no longer wait until October…
Oct 27, 2020 / Featured Article
‘The examination of Black cultures.. is necessary for several reasons. It shows something of the richness of cultural struggle in and around ‘race’ and demonstrates also the dimensions of Black...
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