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Investing in People
We have all got used to the wonders of Zoom (or Teams if you prefer) over the last couple of years. It may have made academic life as we were used to it viable during the pandemic, but it has … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education, Science Funding
Tagged apprenticeships, House of Lords, skills, solar panels
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Joining the Dots Around Skills
You don’t have to read beyond the first few lines of the summary of last week’s House of Lords’ Science and Technology Select Committee Report to recognize they are sceptical about the Government’s direction of travel when it comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education, Science Funding
Tagged absorptive capacity, diffusion, Felixstowe, green economy, House of Lords
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A University Education and a Lifetime of Debt
Finally, the response to the Augar Review, for which we have been waiting for the rather splendid number of 1001 days, has been released. I will not accuse the Government of choosing a good day to bury bad news, because … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged Augar Review, Further Education, Levelling Up, lifetime loan entitlement
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Skills, FE and Levelling Up
As we await various key Government papers – specifically the long-awaited response to the Augar Report and the Levelling Up White paper – the news is full of labour shortages. Whereas delivering some of Augar’s recommendations about funding for FE … Continue reading
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Tagged Augar Review, BTECs, productivity, T Levels, technicians
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The Problems of Measurement
How should we measure what is a good outcome from a university education? As David Willetts puts it in his latest report published through the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) ‘The Treasury cast their beady eye over the evidence and … Continue reading
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Tagged Further Education, inequality, mobility, skills
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