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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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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025
It is ten years since UNESCO declared today, February 11th, as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Less well-known, I suspect, than International Women’s Day, it has a more specific focus. Sadly, in its ten years of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, natural history, People, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged ASPIRES2, Michaela, pipeline, schoolteachers
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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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Living in Silos
When I first started writing this blog in 2010, I imagined I was going to write about the science that interested me, the latest papers in my field that caught my eye, and specifically highlight the excitement and challenge of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Interdisciplinary Science, natural history, People
Tagged Department for Education, interdisciplinarity, jargon, Roger Pielke
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