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David Price OBE discusses The Power of US @DavidPriceOBE launches new book "The Power of Us: How we connect, act and innovate together" This book launch has an interesting time being during the Corona Crisis, Gavin @FENews took the opportunity to chat with David about what the education system, the future of work and what we can learn from the current world situation: Exploring how the education s...

Dr Heidi Alaskary, Lead Co-Chair of the Task Force on Economy, Employment and Education in the Digital Age and Paul Grainger, Co-director of the Centre for Education and Work, UCL, and Co-Chair of the G20 Task Force on Education and Skills discuss the impact of COVID on education and skills in the fourth industrial revolution.

Helping a “lockdown generation” transition to labour markets post COVID-19 As GAN Global (@GAN4Skills) "What can we do to collectively help a #LockdownGeneration transition to labour markets post COVID-19?" is the main issue we wanted to address with high-level stakeholders from public and private spheres and youth representatives from across the globe (Online discussion - 17 July 2020). A deep ec...

Helping a “lockdown generation” transition to labour markets post COVID-19 As GAN Global (@GAN4Skills) "What can we do to collectively help a #LockdownGeneration transition to labour markets post COVID-19?" is the main issue we wanted to address with high-level stakeholders from public and private spheres and youth representatives from across the globe (Online discussion - 17 July 2020). A deep ec...

@NUSScotland responds to Digital Poverty fund NUS Scotland President, Matt Crilly responds to the Digital Poverty fund announcement.

Beth Curtis, Protocol discusses recruiting End Point Assessors and Dual Professionalism at EPA Live. Beth discusses the two routes to attracting End Point Assessors: One from the instructors and assessors who were delivering Frameworks, but as Beth explains End Point Assessment is very different and the importance of occupational competence and particularly logging CPD of occupational competence i...

FE News chat with Lucy Hunte, National Programme Manager, Apprenticeships Talent for Care, with Health Education England about scaling Apprenticeship and T Level delivery at #EPALive in Wembley. The NHS is the largest employer in the UK, with a £200 million Apprenticeship Levy pot. So we asked Lucy to give the sector advice on how to deliver Apprenticeships and T Levels with a large employer with...

Richard Meredith, from OneFile discusses Ofsted at EPA Live in Wembley. Richard discusses evidencing learner progress for Ofsted and explained that he was recently attending the Ofsted review for 16-19 and how Ofsted are now particularly interested and making a shift to the impact on a learner. He explains this is particularly around the learner journey, where have they progressed from, where are...

FE News chat with Lucy Dunleavy, Founder and CEO of LearnBox about the modern learner and the future of learner engagement at the EPA Live conference. Lucy explains that the modern learner is time shy, easily distracted and needs bite sized training to meet their needs. Lifelong learning is changing, the non accredited lifelong learning route could involve Googling a problem or watching a YouTube...

FE News chat with Leonie Thompson, EPA Manager from NOCN at EPA Live 2020 about the systems and procedures that are a part of the End Point Assessment process from an End Point Assessment Awarding Organisation (EPAO perspective). Leonie also chats about aligning curriculum to Apprenticeship Standards, Planning for a successful Gateway and finishes with some top tips to ensure a successful End Poin...

Richard Atkins unpacks the FE Commissioners Annual report FE News chat with Richard Atkins, FE Commissioner, to unpack his 2018/19 annual report. We discuss timings on the report, due to the election and purdah the report has come out later than Richard would have hoped, as the original aim was to release the report during the 2019 AoC Annual conference, but this was in the middle of the run up to...

Richard Marsh, Apprenticeship Partnership Director, Kaplan Financial, discusses the biggest challenges for employers and providers moving to Standards and End Point Assessment at NOCN's #EPALive conference. Richard explores some of the practical things to consider ranging from materials and guidance, as previously with Apprenticeship Frameworks Awarding Organisations provided materials to support...

Lack of Knowledge Puts Promising Potentials Off Police Work 68% don’t believe a career in the police force is accessible to all, almost one in five (18%) people aged 18-24 are put off pursuing a career in policing as they don’t know what job roles are available to them. More than two thirds (68%) of UK adults don’t believe a career in policing is accessible to everyone. Even though the variety of...

Tom Burton talks to FE News at EPA Live 2020. Excited to be at @wembleystadium today for #epalive with @LearningBoxed @Protocol_Rec @FENews @NOCNGroup and @OneFileUK

FE News chat with FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins about his role as the FE Commissioner, particularly how the majority of his role which is supporting and developing the 240 FE Colleges across the sector: Richard explains that although his role is perceived to be all about dramatic college interventions with failing colleges, this is incredibly rare and only happens on a very small handful of mino...

FE News chat with Dr Jay Derrick from UCL. Jay is a Senior Lecturer at UCL, IOE - Education, Practice & Society and Institute of Education. He is also a Senior Lecturer on an Engineering MSc encouraging lifelong learning and agile skill sets for engineers. Jay discusses how to develop the foundations for learners and professionals to develop stackable skills to prepare for the jobs of the future o...

FE News chat with Dr Sam Duncan from UCL about her recent research project called RABiT (Reading Aloud in Britain Today). The funded project explored hundreds of adults reading aloud behaviours across England, Scotland and Wales and covered a wide range of ages, genders, ethnicities, faiths, educational backgrounds in both urban and rural locations to explore if there were any patterns or stark di...

#FutureofEducation - Dilemmas, dualisms and dialectics FE News chat with Martin Doel to discuss his upcoming (20 Feb) valedictory professorial lecture for his Professorship at UCL, and is titled 'The Future of Education: dilemmas, dualisms and dialectics'. This is an extension on his first lecture on 'Defining FE'. Martin thinks about the system of the future and learning from what the sector was...

FE News catch up with Dr Jay Derrick to chat about informal Lifelong learning. Jay is a Senior Lecturer at UCL, IOE - Education, Practice & Society and Institute of Education. Jay has a particular passion for lifelong learning and reflects on the many recent reports around the importance of Lifelong learning. Jay then goes onto discuss the importance of lifelong learning policy, particularly infor...

FE News chat with Graham Griffiths, Director of Post Compulsory PGCE at UCL Graham heads up a specialist PGCE FE teacher training division at UCL in London. We chat with Graham about FE teacher training and how the developments in policy have affected specialist FE teacher training. We also discuss the challenge of maintaining CPD in the sector, developing a dual professionalism strategy for certa...

FE News chat with Paul Grainger, Co-director of the Centre for Education and Work, and Head of Innovation and Enterprise for the Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL. We caught up with Paul just as he was preparing to jet off to Saudi Arabia for the 2020 G20 taskforce summit to discuss the future of work. Paul discusses the future of work, particularly the influence of AI (Artificial...

FE News chat with Rob Bosworth, Vice Principal at Exeter College about what the college of the future could look like? Rob discusses blended learning, the pros of groups of learners gathering together to pedagogically discuss topics, to digital transformation and community based learning.

FE News chat with Sally Dicketts, Group Chief Executive of Activate Learning. Sally Dicketts discusses the future of the FE system, particularly Collaborative systems and how thoughtful use of technology will help both the FE system, teachers and learners. Sally hopes the FE system of the future will see more collaboration with employers and the world of work. She explains that with thoughtful use...

FE News chat with Association of Employment and Learning Providers CEO, Mark Dawe at the Association of Colleges 2019 annual conference. We dream big with Mark, and discuss the future of the FE System. Mark discusses the different component parts of the FE System and sees the future as being more about collaboration than competition. He then also reflects on his travels around the World (this year...

FE News podcast with Mark Wright, Head of Leadership and Development at the Education and Training Foundation. Mark explains that the leadership succession pipeline is quite damaged at the moment, so ETF are working on repairing this at the moment with the sector. Mark discusses the Leadership and development plan for Executive level and middle management which is the 'engine room' of the sector....