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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
Posted in Careers, Education, Science Funding
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
Posted in Careers, Education
Tagged Further Education, inequality, mobility, skills
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University Traditions
This is the time of year when students are in the process of returning to their many campuses (or going for the first time as Freshers). Cambridge University term starts later than many, and as a result few students are … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged admission to degrees, Freshers, Girton College, matriculation, Senate House
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‘Pure’ versus ‘Applied’ Science
When I started this blog, more than ten years ago, I imagined I would write about physics, and specifically about physics at the interface with biology. Perhaps, I thought, I would write about exciting papers I’d read; indeed, I asked … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Interdisciplinary Science, Research
Tagged Biological Physics, James Clerk Maxwell, Mike Cates, Pietro Cicuta
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The Imperative of Skills
Whereas academic scientists too often only think in terms of producing the next generation of academic scientists like them, the reality is many would-be PIs would be lost without the technicians who keep the equipment running, train newcomers and generally … Continue reading
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Tagged BEIS, Chatteris, Further Education, technicians, training
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