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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.
Universities must embrace hybrid learnin…
May 15, 2021 / Featured Article
The UK’s international student population is on the brink of crisis. The number of students from major ‘source’ countries has declined, falling by up to 26% since 2011/12. This long-term trend...
How well is post compulsory education pr…
May 14, 2021 / Featured Article
Kitchen conversations, car parks and office keys no more. According to the LinkedIn Emerging Jobs Report for the UK, the top three emerging roles are: ‘Artificial Intelligence Specialist’ ‘Data Protection Officer’ ‘Robotics Engineer’ Whilst the...
The Suez Canal block sheds light on the …
May 13, 2021 / Featured Article
When the Ever Given, a 200,000-tonne Panama-flagged ship, ran aground in the mouth of the Suez Canal, trade between Europe and Asia ground almost to a halt. By 28th March...
A stark reminder of how mental health an…
May 12, 2021 / Featured Article
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek – How to Support Employees Mental Health issues are at the top of the mind of many employees and individuals. More so now than ever before, the pandemic has been...
Loss and Renewal. Using the lessons of t…
May 12, 2021 / Featured Article
We will be studying the last 12 months and its educational impact for decades to come. The closing of schools, colleges and universities in response to the global Covid crisis...
The future of learning is hybrid, so how…
May 11, 2021 / Featured Article
The last year has turned all of our lives upside down. As a sector, we’ve had to adapt and acquire new skills to make sure everyone is benefitting from their...
What is preventing girls from entering t…
May 10, 2021 / Featured Article
How can we encourage greater representation in engineering and science? Female engineers have accomplished incredible feats over the years, from Mary Anderson who brought us the windscreen wiper and Emily Roebling...
Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Invis…
May 08, 2021 / Featured Article
#TraumaInformed - Prior to the pandemic, the number of black children that were impacted by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) was staggering at sixty-one percent in the United States. Over the past...
Could the Government be doing more to ad…
May 07, 2021 / Featured Article
Spring has well and truly sprung, as people have been revelling in their first trip to the pub since restrictions eased recently. The vaccine rollout is steaming ahead. Meanwhile, online...
The rise of the T-shaped worker - Unlock…
May 06, 2021 / Featured Article
IT Managers are More Essential Than Ever Before Online learning and teaching didn’t originate from the COVID-19 pandemic; it was already a legitimate industry, with many people occupying online teaching and...
Informing the Future: The Leadership of …
May 05, 2021 / Featured Article
With rapid change, risk, uncertainty impacting on individuals and wider society some serious efforts are needed now and, in the future, to support the leadership of thinking. Education and employment systems...
What does online safeguarding look like …
May 05, 2021 / Featured Article
In recent discussions with college leaders, I have noticed a common refrain: they welcome our current return to relative normalcy, but they believe that the balance of offline-to-online education will...
Artificial Intelligence has the potentia…
May 04, 2021 / Featured Article
As @Jisc launches its National Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Tertiary Education, Sue Attewell and Andy McGregor describe the benefits of #AIED for student, staff, institutions – and UK plc Let’s seize this moment to transform teaching and learning with artificial intelligence We’re building...
When it comes to skills, the pandemic is…
Apr 30, 2021 / Featured Article
UN Secretary General António Guterres recently paid tribute to the resilience of students, teachers and families in the face of the global pandemic that, at its peak, forced almost every...
Monitoring the awarding of VTQS in 2021
Apr 29, 2021 / Featured Article
In a previous article for FE News, my colleague Catherine Large explained how Ofqual has introduced an exceptional regulatory framework to support the awarding of the 15,000 vocational and technical...
Three reasons to be particularly concern…
Apr 28, 2021 / Featured Article
A U-Shaped crisis Young people have been at the epicentre of the Covid-19 crisis. The severe restrictions and lockdown closures of social sectors of the economy – such as hospitality, retail...
Where’s the data? Does the UK really k…
Apr 28, 2021 / Featured Article
With the Plan for Jobs and Skills for Jobs – the two big policy initiatives on skills over the last year – it looks as if the importance of vocational...
Opportunities on the horizon for the qua…
Apr 27, 2021 / Featured Article
The terms remote, blended, online, distanced, synchronous, asynchronous have become common rhetoric over the past year in education. Much discussion has followed on the impact and effectiveness of technology to support...
Let’s Create A Sporting Chance for Ski…
Apr 26, 2021 / Featured Article
As the British sociologist Anthony Giddens once said, “Dr Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by saying, ‘I have a nightmare’”. Indeed, if this most recent...
How HEIs can respond to the growing ‘n…
Apr 23, 2021 / Featured Article
The notion of a ‘job for life’ was already in the process of being eroded by evolving pre-pandemic workplace trends. Younger generations have been at the forefront of this as...
Location Services – Make or Break for …
Apr 22, 2021 / Featured Article
Jamie Pitchforth, Head of Education Practice, EMEA at Juniper Networks, looks into how institutions can enrich their on-campus experience for students and faculty with actionable insights and assured access, while respecting...
The power of Collective Intelligence: Cu…
Apr 21, 2021 / Featured Article
The power of collective intelligence can move mountains. At its simplest, collective intelligence is the process by which a large group of individuals gather and share their knowledge, data, and...
How connectivity and technology looks se…
Apr 20, 2021 / Featured Article
Technology has been one of the winners of 2020. Because of the necessity of staying away from people in real life, we have all come to rely on technology to...
Seeing the wood AND the trees - What’s…
Apr 19, 2021 / Featured Article
Maybe you’ve heard this story about motivation: the visitor to a cathedral building-site who interviews three bricklayers. “Laying bricks,” says the first; “Putting this wall up,” says the second; “Building...
No Child Left Behind
Apr 19, 2021 / Featured Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, work and interact with our friends, colleagues and family members. Entire industries have transformed rapidly, and millions worldwide have adjusted to...
Now the conversation has started it must…
Apr 17, 2021 / Featured Article
#EveryonesInvited: Now the conversation has started it must continue if society is to work together to eradicate sexual harassment in schools and colleges Concerns of the existence of a rape culture...
Further education will benefit from main…
Apr 16, 2021 / Featured Article
To salvage positives from the rubble of the pandemic is a difficult task, particularly given we are still far from being out of the crisis. However, all sectors appreciate that...
Freeports will create some 170,000 jobs …
Apr 15, 2021 / Featured Article
Renewable energy, cybersecurity, naval architecture – why job seekers should consider maritime For Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the eight English freeports announced last month will ‘exemplify the future economy’, and ‘unlock billions...
The pandemic has disproportionately impa…
Apr 14, 2021 / Featured Article
The last year has highlighted the incredible capabilities of technology. Technologies such as cloud computing have enabled our workplaces, our governments, and our educational institutions to keep operational in the most...
How to support neurodiverse learners: #8…
Apr 13, 2021 / Featured Article
The speed at which we can process information is obviously hugely relevant in learning settings when time with tutors and the programme curriculum are structured to specific timeframes. ‘‘Many cognitive activities...
We no longer need to wheel tea trolleys …
Apr 13, 2021 / Featured Article
The 1980s doesn’t seem so long ago. But for women in the workplace, it was a different world. When I started my first job, writing cheques in an accounts payable office...
Going paperless – helping the educatio…
Apr 12, 2021 / Featured Article
As schools and colleges across the country have returned to the physical learning environment after a turbulent year of virtual education and home-schooling, there’s no doubting that technology has played...
Five questions that the FE White paper s…
Apr 10, 2021 / Featured Article
When the Skills for Jobs white paper finally arrived in January this year, it was met with a generally positive welcome from the sector. The Skills for Jobs identified five key...
Net-Zero – A golden ticket for Youth E…
Apr 09, 2021 / Featured Article
#GreenSkillsWeek - Shining a spotlight on the green economy and opening the minds of young people to the jobs available No one can dispute that the pandemic has played havoc with lives...
Learning lessons and leveraging new tech…
Apr 09, 2021 / Featured Article
In March last year when the country went into lockdown, I don’t think anyone imagined that one year on many in the sector would still be working remotely, trying to...
Employers in the driving seat: Wrong tur…
Apr 08, 2021 / Featured Article
The attitude and engagement of employers towards both on- and off-the-job training is one of the most critical factors in determining the quality of an apprenticeship. Our research "Employers' attitudes...
Shrinking the digital divide in educatio…
Apr 07, 2021 / Featured Article
With school doors finally open again after another national lockdown, pupils are back in the classroom environment, socialising with their friends and reconnecting with teachers. It’s a welcome return and...
Unfinished business: business support se…
Apr 06, 2021 / Featured Article
Government’s recent white paper, Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth, sets out an ambition for College Business Centres to work with employers to drive innovation and productivity. In...
How to support neurodiverse learners: #7…
Apr 06, 2021 / Featured Article
Our visual perception allows us to organise information we’re seeing and interpret it accurately. It involves things like hand/eye coordination, copying information and mental visualisation. “The ability to perceive complex patterns and...
Skills for Green Jobs: a vocational outl…
Apr 05, 2021 / Featured Article
#GreenSkillsWeek2021 - Way back before the world changed and we all started wearing strange masks, in the dim and distant past of 2019, students around the world were taking to...
What role does data analytics play withi…
Apr 03, 2021 / Featured Article
There’s been a lot of change in the education sector over the last 12 months, and it’s only recently that institutions have started reopening their doors to teachers and pupils...
Why customer experience is critical to f…
Apr 02, 2021 / Featured Article
Covid-19 has been a powerful catalyst, accelerating emergent trends and setting new consumer expectations. As some degree of normality becomes reality, the organisations that will excel are not focused on...
Into work and onto skills training - the…
Apr 01, 2021 / Featured Article
The government has made a sizeable investment to underpin the Prime Minister’s “Opportunity Guarantee” announced last June to give every young person “the chance of an apprenticeship or an in-work...
Lessons from the pandemic: how technolog…
Apr 01, 2021 / Featured Article
Over the last year, it has become apparent that to ensure educational continuity, we need to take greater strides toward digitalization within our schools and universities, and provide appropriate training...
The vaccine roll-out provides a model of…
Mar 31, 2021 / Featured Article
This year’s Budget was a little lighter on information about new schemes for young people than many expected. That said, it remains clear that providing alternative routes into work for the...
Employers and educators must work togeth…
Mar 31, 2021 / Featured Article
As we start to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, thoughts are turning to the re-building of the economy. Many businesses have suffered while other industries have met with growing demand...
How to support neurodiverse learners: #6…
Mar 30, 2021 / Featured Article
Like literacy, our numeracy skills often get reduced down to our ability to do sums in our head and wondering why we studied algebra at school when we never use...
This time it’s personal - meeting the …
Mar 29, 2021 / Featured Article
The next generation of students — dubbed Generation Z, or sometimes Zoomers — will soon be flooding into higher and further education. Millennials may be tech savvy, but Gen Z...
Preparing young people for work: Innovat…
Mar 27, 2021 / Featured Article
The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on the young. Existing shortcomings in the education system have been compounded by abrupt changes in the labour market. As the skills that...
Regulating the awarding of VTQs in 2021
Mar 27, 2021 / Featured Article
The last year has seen unprecedented disruption to teaching and learning caused by the pandemic, and assessment is no exception. It is Ofqual’s role to regulate for the validity and...
The role of universities in leading us o…
Mar 27, 2021 / Featured Article
Although far from unique, the higher education sector has experienced a particularly tumultuous 12-months. The pandemic has brought unprecedented difficulties for all stakeholders, and myriad challenges remain across admissions, course...
“It’s Time To Stop Talking About Rec…
Mar 26, 2021 / Featured Article
A year on from the first lockdown, is it now time to stop talking about recovery? Because what if nothing is different when the surge cedes, the waves abide and fewer...
Spaced out – environment matters when …
Mar 26, 2021 / Featured Article
A year of restrictions, health concerns and economic turbulence has taken a heavy toll on emotional wellbeing across all sectors of society. Data published by the ONS shows that 57% of...
Skills for Jobs White Paper - The Level …
Mar 26, 2021 / Featured Article
In the FE #SkillsForJobs White Paper, @GavinWilliamson sets the bar high when it comes to his vision for its impact: “This White Paper is not just about a new economic dawn...
Uncovering The Workplace Maturity Gold M…
Mar 25, 2021 / Featured Article
As the digital economy continues to develop, organisations are changing their recruitment and development strategies to source the technical skills required to deliver online products and services. To a large...
Ensuring the correct level in end-point …
Mar 24, 2021 / Featured Article
One of the most common areas of difficulty I find when working with End-point Assessment Organisations (EpAOs) is in the development (design and testing) of their tools and materials. Some...
SKILLS WITHIN REACH - HOW BEST TO SUPPOR…
Mar 24, 2021 / Featured Article
The WEA (@WEAadulted) recently hosted a virtual roundtable with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Adult Education under its new Chair, Margaret Greenwood MP. The meeting welcomed the Skills Minister, Gillian Keegan...
Edtech accessibility: why software desig…
Mar 23, 2021 / Featured Article
Since the pandemic began, discussion around access to education technology has focused emphatically on inequalities in hardware provision. Senior figures in government, tech and education have all grappled with the...
How to support neurodiverse learners: #5…
Mar 23, 2021 / Featured Article
Literacy doesn’t just refer to our reading or spelling skills. It encompasses everything we perceive about language, including: Vocabulary. Language processing power and speed. Reading fluency and comprehension. Spatial perception – listening and speaking. Understanding...
Utilising AEB allocation to increase acc…
Mar 22, 2021 / Featured Article
It’s really no secret that the pandemic has been one of the biggest challenges faced by the education sector in recent history. Attainment across all age groups has sadly –...
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