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In October 2023, FE News held its first-ever event - The FE Collective! The FE Collective is a flipped conference where the audience works together to share ideas, visions and solutions, and develop a joint plan to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the FE and Skills sector. All of which contributed to a revolutionary collaborative report. In this stream, we will discuss this epic report...

In this episode, Aman Merchant, the Co-Founder and Chief Provocateur at Radicle, a futures lab that delivers transformative solutions, discusses why he co-founded the RewirEd Sandbox. This global platform is set to transform education systems and will help bring together pioneers, leaders, and innovators within and beyond the education sector to design ‘RewirEd Provocations’, the solutions to some...

Juliet Kyobweine, Deputy Program Manager at Educate talks about the need to equip young people in Africa with the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs, and drive development in their communities.

#NoLearnerLeftBehind - Welcome to the first @FENews #Livestream in conjunction with @CognAssist We all know that learner dropout is a serious issue. Approx 35% of Apprentices drop out. The big question is, how do we prevent apprentices from dropping out? Your host is Gavin O’Meara, CEO of FE News and your panelists are: Dr. Louise Karwowski, Director of Education, Cognassist, Sally Dicketts, AoC P...

#RewirEdSummit - Dr Tariq Al Gurg, CEO @DubaiCares, joins this @FENews podcast episode to discuss RewirEd; a Dubai Care's led initiative in partnership with Expo 2020 Dubai and in close coordination with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC), delivered in partnership with global stakeholders. This first of its kind global platform is calling on the internationa...

Welcome to Episode 4 and the final instalment of the #ExploringNeurodiversity podcast, a co-produced podcast mini-series brought to you by @FENews and @CognAssist. In this episode, your hosts Gavin O’Meara from FE News and Louise Karwowski, Head of Science at Cognassist are joined by Charles Dall'omo, CEO of Train Together and his colleague Nicola Clark, Senior Learning Coordinator at Train Togeth...

Welcome to Episode 3 of the #ExploringNeurodiversity podcast, a co-produced podcast mini-series brought to you by @FENews and @Cognassist. In this episode your hosts Gavin O’Meara from FE News and Louise Karwowski, Head of Science at Cognassist are joined by Karl Bentley from RSM to discuss Neurodiversity Funding Fears. Karl has over 20 years in the FE sector and is a funding, data and audit speci...

Exploring Neurodiversity Podcast – Steps to Outstanding with Marina Gaze Welcome to Episode 2 of the Exploring Neurodiversity podcast, a co-produced podcast mini series brought to you by FE News and Cognassist. In today’s episode your hosts Gavin O’Meara from FE News and Louise Karwowski, Head of Science at Cognassist are joined by Marina Gaze to discuss Steps to Outstanding. Marina is an expert i...

Exploring Neurodiversity – Mythbusting and removing barriers Welcome to Episode 1 of the Exploring Neurodiversity podcast. Episode 1 is with Dr. Louise Karwowski, Head of Science at Cognassist and is all about Mythbusting in Neurodiversity and is all about removing barriers for learners, educators, teams and leaders. Exploring Neurodiversity is a brand new podcast four part mini-series that is co-...

Exploring Neurodiversity What does it really mean to think differently? We all have our own perspective on the world. Each of us thinks and learns in our own way. It’s the job of educators to teach people new information, which gives them the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to succeed. But how often do we give people the skills, knowledge and behaviour they need to learn this informatio...

Anthony discusses the changes in educational delivery from before Covid, to these now During Covid times. He then discusses the future of blended learning. Anthony then shares some interesting examples of best practice of digital transformation in education and what the future of online learning and education could be and how the trend has moved to developing skills. Coursera had a recent Global S...

Brought to you by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (@ESFAGov) and Federation of @AwardingBodies: Employers and assessment the EPA podcast mini-series This episode of Employers and Assessment welcomes Cathy Weston (Toni and Guy). Every episode, we speak to an employer about their experiences of EPA and they share their knowledge of how apprenticeships have been working for their business. Othe...

Brought to you by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (@ESFAGov) and Federation of @AwardingBodies: Employers and assessment the EPA podcast mini-series This episode of Employers and Assessment welcomes Ruth South (Capgemini). Every episode, we speak to an employer about their experiences of EPA and they share their knowledge of how apprenticeships have been working for their business. Other Epi...

Brought to you by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (@ESFAGov) and Federation of @AwardingBodies: Employers and assessment the EPA podcast mini-series This episode of Employers and Assessment welcomes Amy Barber, Apprentice Programme Manager at Severn Trent Water. Every episode, we speak to an employer about their experiences of EPA and they share their knowledge of how apprenticeships have be...

Brought to you by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (@ESFAGov) and Federation of @AwardingBodies: Employers and assessment - the EPA podcast mini-series. This episode of Employers and Assessment welcomes Kathryn Marshall, Senior Manager of Apprenticeships at Lloyds Banking Group. Every episode, we speak to an employer about their experiences of EPA and they share their knowledge of how apprent...

Employers and Assessment with Jim Murphy (Iceland Foods). Employers and assessment is a mini podcast series brought to you by the Education & Skills Funding Agency and Federation of Awarding Bodies. Every episode, we speak to an employer about their experiences of EPA and they share their knowledge of how apprenticeships have been working for their business.

FE News chat with Chris Quickfall, CEO and Founder of Cognassist to unpack Reasonable Adjustments in Apprenticeships and Skills. Our brains are more unique than a fingerprint but far more complex! We all think, learn and experience the world differently. And whilst we’ve made progress in accelerating inclusivity in education, significant barriers exist for many learners. Put simply, reasonable adj...

FE News have a really interesting international podcast for you unpacking the skills for the Future of Work with Nazrene Mannie from GAN (the Global Apprenticeship Network) and Bettina Schaller from Adecco Group. Both Nazrene and Bettina are members of the B20 (Business 20) Future of work and education task force that advises the G20. As well as looking into the skills for the Future of Work, we a...

FE News chat with Jonathan Mitchell, Deputy Director for Apprenticeship Development at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education and Zuza Wnekowska, who is an Apprentice Panel Member and is also completing an Apprenticeship in aerospace engineering to unpack the recent Apprenticeship survey. We discuss the Apprenticeship survey, what it's aims were, and the results. Three of the mo...

Robin and Amarjit unpack their 10 point plan and explain how an inclusive curriculum is key , to promote anti-racism in Further Education, for learners, staff and leaders. Amarjit and Robin then discuss how they have been engaging with the FE sector so far to explore solutions to help the sector be more inclusive. We then discuss the early impact, particularly how different sector groups have star...

Here is part two unpacking the operational running of the WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence, in this episode we chat with Joan Scott, Assistant Principal of the Trafford College Group and Frazer Minskip, WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence High Performance Skills Coach and a WorldSkills UK Training Manager for the Automotive sector. We unpack how the High Performance Skills Coaches will practica...

FE News caught up with WorldSkills UK CEO Neil Bentley Gockmann and NCFE CEO David Gallagher about the Centre of Excellence and the potential impact on the FE Ecosystem. Many people may not understand what the Centre of Excellence actually is, so Neil and David both break down what the Centre of Excellence (CoE) is, and how the CoE will help deliver World class training and mentoring to Colleges a...

@FENews chat with @GillianKeegan, Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills, about #TLevels We unpack T Levels, particularly with the pilot T Level programmes starting this September, many learners would be starting the first T Levels this week. Gillian chats about how the Covid pandemic has affected T Level delivery, particularly the industry placements and the measures put in place...

The FE White Paper - Which international education and skills systems are good inspiration? #FEReform - @DavidPriceOBE discusses which international education and work systems could be a good inspiration for the upcoming FE White Paper. In the Autumn of 2020, the much anticipated FE White paper is due to be released. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has hinted that he is taking inspiration fro...