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FE News chat with AoC's Chief Executive David Hughes about T Level Industry Placements at the #AoCConf 2019. David discusses how some Industry Placements will be more straightforward that others, eg Childcare and Agriculture, compared to challenges of a 16 year old on a building site for construction. David explains that DfE may need to enable greater flexibility on the industry placement for cert...

FE News podcast with Cath Sezen, Senior Policy Manager - Further Education with the Association of Colleges. We caught up with Cath at the AoC Annual conference 2019. Cath chats about the T Level programme to date and what the future developments could hold. Please check out the podcast below to hear what Cath has to say about T Levels:

FE News podcast with Martin Doel, Visting Professor and Associate Director Post 14 Centre of Education and Work at UCL Institute for Education. We caught up with Martin at the #AocConf 2019 after he led an interesting breakout session at the Association of Colleges conference on How to Avoid Education Administration, which was a session primarily aimed at Governs to help them better understand Edu...

FE News chat with Lewis Cooper, Director, Independent Commission on the College of the Future at the Association of Colleges annual conference 2019. We chat with Lewis about the progress of the commission on exploring the College of the Future. Lewis discusses the progress to date and gives some examples of their findings so far. Click below to hear what Lewis has to say about the College of the F...

#SkillsSurvey - IET launches its latest Skills and Demand in Industry report The IET’s latest Skills and Demand in Industry report, published earlier this week (18 Nov), reveals that 60% of employers report recruitment of engineering and technical staff with the right skills the biggest anticipated barrier to achieving their business objectives over the next three years. FE News catch up with Joan...

FE News catch up with @MatthewSyed at the #AocConf 2019 annual conference. Matthew discusses Growth Mindset and Diverse Thinking for leadership teams. Check out what Matthew has to say on the podcast below:

FE News chat with David Hughes at the AoC Conference 2019 as he discusses the importance of collaboration for an FE Renaissance in 2020

FE News chat with Steve Mariadas, Chief Executive Officer of the South West Institute of Technology. Steve discusses the now and the future plans for the whole South West region of the IoT, from meeting learner needs, to delivering higher level technical skills to meet employers needs. Check out the podcast below:

Marie- Claire O'Brien discusses 'hard to reach' learners and how to get involved in offender learning at the #SETConf2019

FE News chat with David Didau about 'Analogue Learning' at the Society for Education and Training annual conference. We often hear about the latest innovations in EdTech and how adopting technology improves the learning experience, increases access and enables continual learning. David chats about the power of traditional Analogue learning at the #SETConf19

FE News chat with Vikki Liogier, the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) Head of Learning Technologies and Angela Sanders who is an Associate Consultant at ETF about Digital Skills, particularly Essential Digital Skills for CPD. Vikki and Angela discuss strategies to make digital skills CPD accessible to all Practitioners across the sector. Check out the podcast below.

FE News chat with David Didau at the SETConf19 to discuss his top tips for Practitioners, Teachers, Trainers, Lecturers and Assessors to progress their career and also how to gain the skills that employers are looking for.

FE News chat with Teresa Carroll, the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) Head of Well-being and Inclusion about the new report on SET members Mental Health and Well-being findings that were released at the annual SET Conference 2019. Teresa discusses the reporting findings, some of the interesting initial outcomes were that newly qualified and practitioners nearing retirement were the most po...

Geoff Petty discusses his top tips for new and existing practitioners at the #SETconf2019

Deborah Millar, Group Executive Director of Digital Learning Technologies at The TEC Partnership talks to FE News about Educating the Educators and the role of EdTech in supporting staff and learners.

FE News chat with Sally Dicketts, Group Chief Executive of Activate Learning about the importance of Coaching for Practitioners and Leaders at the SET 2019 annual conference.

ETF's David Russell discusses how the 2019 General Election could impact FE practitioners FE News catch up with Education and Training Foundation's CEO, David Russell at the SET (Society for Education and Training Foundation) 2019 conference. We chat with David about how the election could potentially impact the sector and practitioners. These are uncertain times and depending on the outcome of th...

Over the next three weeks FE News are going to be running a mini series on "The Quality of Education", and have the great pleasure to be chatting about this with one of Her Majesty's inspectors for Ofsted, Chris Jones. Join us this week as we discuss Impact: Chris is a specialist advisor for further education and skills, with a special interest in apprenticeships. Over the next three weeks he will...

Over the next three weeks FE News are going to be running a mini series on "The Quality of Education", and have the great pleasure to be chatting about this with one of Her Majesty's inspectors for Ofsted, Chris Jones. Chris is a specialist advisor for further education and skills, with a special interest in apprenticeships, and he will be talking to us about the quality of education, and within t...

Over the next three weeks FE News are going to be running a mini series on "The Quality of Education", and have the great pleasure to be chatting about this with one of Her Majesty's inspectors for Ofsted, Chris Jones. Chris is a specialist advisor for further education and skills, with a special interest in apprenticeships, and he will be talking to us about the quality of education, and within t...

The IET commissioned CHILDWISE to explore what factors inform parents’ and children’s opinions of engineering and technology as potential career areas. David Lakin, The Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) Head of education joins us to discuss the full report, and what can be done to ensure the UK has an incoming fleet of STEM students. Read the full details on FE News: https://www.fe...

Dr Jamie Mackay talks to @FENews about the importance of soft skills and the newly released Skills Study by @Instructure on day 2 of #CanvasCon @the_psyentist @makemeavideocv #Skills2030

The explosion of social and informal learning brings new challenges to educators, join us as David Price OBE explains his vision of the #FutureofEducation

Talking to FE News at this year's Labour Party Conference, Joe Dromey is deputy director of research and development at Learning and Work Institute shares his thoughts on the Lifelong Learning Commission and where its priorities should lie.

Talking to FE News at this year's Labour Party Conference, Zamzam Ibrahim, President of the National Union of Students (UK) shares her thoughts on the Lifelong Learning Commission and where its priorities should lie.