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Upping the Engineering Talent Pipeline
The Government’s recently published Modern Industrial Strategy has a lot to say about skills. For instance, it commits to ‘enhance skills and increase access to talent by reforming the skills and employment support system to create a strong pipeline into … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged Lifelong learning entitlement, Skills England, stereotyping, T Levels
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Skills, What Skills?
The answer to many of today’s problems seems to lie in the magic word ‘skills’, but this word can be used to mean so many different things, depending on audience and context, that in itself it is far from sufficient … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged Alison Wolf, apprenticeships, FE Colleges, Growth and Skills Levy
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What do ‘Skills’ Mean to You?
We frequently hear the word ‘skills’ tossed about, as in ‘there’s a skills shortage’ or ‘a skills mismatch’, but put a bunch of people in a room, and ask them to discuss skills, and – with no additional qualifying words … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged absorptive capacity, apprenticeships, Technician Committment, technicians
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The Need to Join the Dots
Last week, I attended an event organised by The Productivity Institute and, more locally, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, as part of National Productivity Week. The meeting’s theme was Innovation and Infrastructure in the East. Note, despite the recent … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, appraisal, ASSET 2010, Athena Forum, Austrian science, Book Review, Careers, Education, Equality, Evelyn Fox Keller, gender, natural history, People, professional training, promotion, Women's Issues
Tagged Further Education, growth, NEETs, Opportunity Mission, Oxford-Cambridge Corridor
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Unreactive Audiences and Pertinent Questions
Given that it is now a decade or more since I was particularly involved in research, if I am asked to give a seminar – usually to students, sometimes undergraduates, sometimes and more commonly PhD students and early career research … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, deficit model, Interdisciplinary Science, Londa Schiebinger, macho, Project Implicit, Science Culture, Science Funding, social media, Unconscious bias, Universities
Tagged Careers, jerks, team players
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