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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.
Congratulating Vertically Challenged Col…
Feb 21, 2020 / Featured Article
#EdTech is slowly replacing more traditional teaching methods and we are beginning to see #biometrics and #AI being used for admin purposes as well as in the classrooms of the...
Why referring to “Fake” Apprenticesh…
Feb 20, 2020 / Featured Article
The old adage "bad news sells" is clearly the case with the EDSK Runaway Training think tank report. Why did this negative piece of work make the mainstream media and yet...
It is time for FE to change and that cha…
Feb 19, 2020 / Featured Article
The Further Education agenda is one full of surprises, challenges and opportunities As I look across my own organisation I never cease to be amazed at the commitment of my staff...
Global Deliberations on The Future of Wo…
Feb 18, 2020 / Featured Article
#G20SaudiArabia - The world is witnessing not only a change in the nature of work, but also in the nature of employment #FutureofWork #FutureofEmployment The G20 is an odd organization. Each...
‘Character education’ is not just th…
Feb 17, 2020 / Featured Article
Character Education: The Experience List Can Help Build #EmotionalIntelligence #EI Every day, we see teenagers doing amazing things for their DofE. Getting out of their comfort zone. Making a difference in...
What Does Burnout Have to Do With the Sk…
Feb 16, 2020 / Featured Article
Employee burnout is a real and prevalent issue in today's economy. Roughly 20% of employees report high levels of engagement and job burnout, revealing that, although they are or were...
Audit Trail of an FE Teacher Educator's …
Feb 15, 2020 / Featured Article
Lessons and implications for valuing the complexities of these under-researched educationists This series of three articles on further education (FE) teacher educators is based on the research monograph, Professional Development of...
Is 2020 the age of the apprentice?
Feb 14, 2020 / Featured Article
An Apprenticeship is a career route that has been overlooked for too long. This National Apprenticeship Week we had a fantastic opportunity to re-energise, redefine and relaunch it for students...
How Colleges can Influence Their Local S…
Feb 14, 2020 / Featured Article
According to recent reports, Skills Advisory Panels (SAPs) may be given a role in influencing and even deciding which courses will be prioritised and funded in their area, under a...
Scaling Apprenticeships and T levels wit…
Feb 13, 2020 / Featured Article
FE News chat with Lucy Hunte, National Programme Manager, Apprenticeships Talent for Care, with Health Education England about scaling Apprenticeship and T Level delivery at #EPALive in Wembley.The NHS is...
Leading by Listening: The FE sector spea…
Feb 13, 2020 / Featured Article
Exploring the mood and wellbeing of #FE Does this better describe the students, or the whole sector? The parallels abound, in Leading by Listening: Reflective Learning, my study of the #FE...
Free Your Ambition: Building confidence …
Feb 12, 2020 / Featured Article
Britain is an ambitious nation. According to research from The Open University’s Free Your Ambition campaign more than nine in 10 Britons have an ambition in life, from earning more money...
Three steps to inspiring the next genera…
Feb 11, 2020 / Featured Article
For International Women and Girls in Science Day (11 Feb) ABM UK’s divisional director, Justine Salmon, gives her views on how to inspire the next generation of female #talent in #STEM The facilities management (FM) and engineering industry has an image...
Shining a light on the lack of gender di…
Feb 11, 2020 / Featured Article
#WomenInScience International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020 Just 17% of those working in the UK technology sector are female, which is significantly lower than most other UK sectors...
Social Media: Important To #FE In 2020 O…
Feb 10, 2020 / Featured Article
The question is worth considering. These days people use the term “social media” to mean lots of different things. They also use the term differently to how it was used...
Apprenticeships and the apprenticeships …
Feb 08, 2020 / Featured Article
I always get excited about #NationalApprenticeshipWeek - it’s a great idea and really helps keep workplace training at the fore. So often the ugly sister to academia, Apprenticeships are essential...
Employers in the Apprenticeship driving …
Feb 07, 2020 / Featured Article
Opportunities The new Government sees boundless opportunities as the country emerges from its #Brexit pre-occupation. One of these has to be a new Apprenticeship strategy as the current 2020 policy horizon...
National Apprenticeship Week provides a …
Feb 07, 2020 / Featured Article
Jennifer Coupland started as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education @IFAteched last November. She reflects below on the joys of #NationalApprenticeshipWeek #NAW2020 and her top...
Why Universities need to work more close…
Feb 06, 2020 / Featured Article
Utilising Training Providers to support Higher Education Apprenticeships, focusing primarily on the Certificate of Higher Education – Children, Young People and Families Apprenticeship Standard level 4. Training Providers have been offering...
National or Local? The Future of Further…
Feb 06, 2020 / Featured Article
#FutureofFE Dilemma No 2: National or Local In the first of the articles leading up to my forthcoming lecture The Future of Further Education, I argued that future predictions were almost bound...
Richard Atkins unpacks the FE Commission…
Feb 05, 2020 / Featured Article
FE News chat with Richard Atkins, FE Commissioner, to unpack his 2018/19 annual report. We discuss timings on the report, due to the election and purdah the report has come...
Delivering an award-winning apprenticesh…
Feb 05, 2020 / Featured Article
#NAW2020 - A lesson from @Softcat The Apprenticeship Levy has received some bad press recently following the publication of The Runaway Training report written by Michael Gove’s former adviser Tom Richmond...
Exploring the true power of technology f…
Feb 04, 2020 / Featured Article
In the face of dwindling budgets, increasing student numbers, an unknown employment market and heightened competition, FE colleges are increasingly turning to technology to deliver a more valuable education experience. We...
An introduction to Ofqual for micro end-…
Feb 03, 2020 / Featured Article
#Governance of End-point Assessment Organisations in the Context of @Ofqual #EPA #EpAOs Following discussions with a number of micro End-point assessment organisations (EpAOs) about governance in the context of ofqual, I thought it may...
Is it harder these days for young people…
Feb 03, 2020 / SkillsWorld
#SkillsWorld presenter and FAB chief executive, Tom Bewick, explores the question with a university student and a functional skills teacher Interviewing Jhanelle White, a student at Kings College London, and Gareth...
Supporting neurodiverse apprentices is a…
Jan 31, 2020 / Featured Article
#LookBeyond #Apprenticeships are paid jobs that incorporate on and off the job training. Engaging in training may require learning a mix of practical skills, but also still requiring formal assessments and needing...
A strong and agile skills base is the fo…
Jan 30, 2020 / Featured Article
#Skills and training challenges in small businesses It has been encouraging to see the increased focus on skills across the UK’s political landscape. In small and medium-sized businesses, which make up...
Discovering the Professional Identities …
Jan 29, 2020 / Featured Article
4 ways to frame #FE teacher educators’ identities This series of three articles on further education (FE) teacher educators is based on the research monograph, Professional Development of Teacher Educators in...
Young care leavers must be given better …
Jan 28, 2020 / Featured Article
Supporting #CareLeavers into Work #ECLCM For many young people getting their first job is a fairly routine experience. It’s usually a Saturday job and starts with a search, sending out CVs...
Collaboration or Competition? The Future…
Jan 27, 2020 / Featured Article
Dilemma No 1: Collaboration or Competition #FutureofFE In the first of the articles leading up to my forthcoming lecture The Future of Further Education, I argued that future predictions were almost...
Teaching skills for the future: How Hels…
Jan 25, 2020 / Featured Article
#Skills2030 - World-leading educators coming together to innovate global education Finland’s education system has maintained a reputation for being the most innovative in the world for decades now. In 2019 the...
Pioneering non-formal and alternative le…
Jan 24, 2020 / Featured Article
#InternationalEducationDay For a long time, traditional education models have failed to equip every child with the skills they need to fulfil their potential and partake meaningfully in society. Whilst many children thrive...
Time to bring back skills accounts?
Jan 24, 2020 / Featured Article
Five Key Principles to Ensure the Success of Future Skills Accounts Nearly 20 years after it all went wrong with Individual Learning Accounts, the politicians think that it’s safe to go...
The Purpose of Apprenticeships, the Rati…
Jan 23, 2020 / Featured Article
Defining what is meant by an ‘apprenticeship’ Let’s start with the purpose of an Apprenticeship. An Apprenticeship is a form of learning. Individuals in employment learn ‘on’ and ‘off’ the job...
5 Reasons Dyslexic People are Brilliant …
Jan 22, 2020 / Featured Article
#Dyslexic People are Brilliant Learners Dyslexia is a common neurological difference - and while it can come with its challenges, it is also frequently paired with an aptitude for creativity and...
Bringing business, schools and colleges …
Jan 21, 2020 / Featured Article
Employer engagement with schools and colleges is critical to the delivery of world-class careers education. In recent years, the number of employer encounters and workplace experiences that young people receive...
Giving a voice to all supports the inclu…
Jan 21, 2020 / Featured Article
Promoting #Diversity and #Inclusion A diverse and inclusive classroom is one that treats each student according to their individual needs and is, in theory, a happy one. However, in any classroom...
£2bn Levy Underspend: Has the demise of…
Jan 20, 2020 / Featured Article
#Apprenticeships 2020: Expiring #Levy Funding and Premature Success Rates - Don't Panic Yet! There has been a lot of speculation about whether Levy Overspend could be causing Apprenticeship funding to run...
What do large employers want from skills…
Jan 20, 2020 / SkillsWorld
In this second episode, recorded with keynote speakers at the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) Annual Conference, #SkillsWorld presenter and FAB Chief Executive, Tom Bewick, speaks to Sharon Blyfield, Head...
Delivering change in disadvantaged place…
Jan 17, 2020 / Featured Article
Five things to watch in 2020 that could help break the low-skilled equilibrium in disadvantaged places We enter the 2020s as a country divided by geography and economics. The economic growth of...
Tackling falling adult student numbers i…
Jan 16, 2020 / Featured Article
If Further Education is considered the overlooked middle child of the UK’s education system, adult learning might be seen as a distant cousin. The Learning and Work Institute reports that fewer...
Conflicts of Interest in End-point Asses…
Jan 15, 2020 / Featured Article
Managing and mitigating conflicts of interest is a critical part of the design and delivery of End-point Assessment (EPA). It must be covered in applications to the Register of End-point Assessment...
Skills shortages in nuclear sector point…
Jan 14, 2020 / Featured Article
Closing the nuclear #skills gap As it takes shape on the Somerset coast, you can’t fail to be impressed by the spectacle of Hinkley Point C, the new nuclear power station...
Highways and byways: Pathways to becomin…
Jan 13, 2020 / Featured Article
Further Education Teacher Educators This series of three articles on further education (FE) teacher educators is based on the research monograph, Professional Development of Teacher Educators in Further Education (Loo, 2020)[1]. The...
World’s first University Chair in Furt…
Jan 13, 2020 / SkillsWorld
On #SkillsWorld this week, Tom Bewick speaks to Professor Martin Doel OBE CBE of University College London. Many listeners will be familiar with Martin’s work when he was chief executive of...
Apprenticeship funding might well be in …
Jan 11, 2020 / Featured Article
With the target of three million #apprenticeship starts by April 2020 having long been discredited, government attention this year is set to focus on how to improve the working of...
Defining the Future of Further Education
Jan 10, 2020 / Featured Article
Dilemmas, dualisms and dialectics - Professor Martin Doel asks, what's next for further education? #FutureofFE“Never make predictions, especially about the future” - Yogi BerraAt the outset of a new decade everyone is...
Collaboration with employers proving imp…
Jan 09, 2020 / Featured Article
As the detail of T Levels has been announced, a considerable amount of attention has been focused on the industry placement element of the courses. As we all now understand, these...
Runaway Training: Pretending that variou…
Jan 08, 2020 / Featured Article
“Today we bundle a number of different activities into the apprenticeship programme, unnecessarily complicating the system, diluting the brand, reducing value for money, and at times detracting apprenticeships… from their...
Investing in leadership training for you…
Jan 07, 2020 / Featured Article
In the post Brexit world when we are likely to see more challenging trading conditions and find it harder to recruit, it will be more important than ever to ensure...
Delivering a quality apprenticeship prog…
Jan 06, 2020 / Featured Article
Future proofing the #apprenticeship model for the #FutureofEmployment Delivering a quality apprenticeship programme isn’t easy. It is arguably the most difficult provision in further education to get right. We have a long way...
GREY POWER OR YOUTH-QUAKE?
Jan 04, 2020 / Featured Article
AGE, NOT CLASS IS NOW WHAT DIVIDES #VOTERS MOST For decades it has been believed that social class was the key determinant behind the outcome of a general election. On December 12...
Is the UK Plagued by Runaway Training an…
Jan 03, 2020 / Featured Article
... No, just an ill judged and ill informed report from the EDSK One of UVAC’s last tasks before the Christmas break was to contribute to research from our American partners...
Best place to work in tech: Why you shou…
Jan 03, 2020 / Featured Article
Five years after the launch of the Northern Powerhouse, Manchester has been named the top city to work in tech in the UK – evidence that, at last, money is...
2020 Vision: Learning for the Changing W…
Jan 03, 2020 / Featured Article
Heard the one about how "most of the jobs in the future haven’t been invented yet"? It’s an often quoted phrase attached to varying levels of dramatic statistics however there is...
Reversing the decade of decline in lifel…
Jan 02, 2020 / Featured Article
#LifelongLearning has never been more important The UK economy has seen a period of stagnation in productivity and pay that is unprecedented in modern times. Productivity has flatlined over the last decade...
Why higher education institutions need a…
Jan 02, 2020 / Featured Article
...and how they can deliver one #FutureofEducation As we head into a new decade, people working in UK higher education sector are mindful of the constantly evolving environment driven by changing...
Is Neurodiversity Coming of Age in 2020?
Dec 31, 2019 / Featured Article
#Neurodiversity - The rationale for positive person-centred framing Neurodiversity is a term that is increasingly being used to embrace a number of conditions such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Condition...
Three ways efficient college management …
Dec 30, 2019 / Featured Article
In every college, the back office provides the administrative backbone to the teaching and learning experiences of students. However, lack of efficient processes can mean that more time and money is...
Cultivating An Inspirational Outdoor Lea…
Dec 28, 2019 / Featured Article
No matter how engaging the lesson is, after a while, a classroom might feel a little oppressive and boredom-inducing. Freshening up the space with a renovation or a new coat...
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