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Artificial Intelligence degrees
The UK operates a central university admissions service, called UCAS. Today they have released their analysis of institutional and subject admissions for 2020. In an article in the online Higher ... -
FutureLearn team up with Microsoft for online AI course
As many of you will know, FutureLearn is the UK Open Universities MOOC arm, run in conjunction with an international consortium of universities. But, I guess like everyone else, FutureLearn ... -
Accountability and algorithmic systems
There seems to be a growing awareness of the use and problems with algorithms - at least in the UK with what Boris Johnson called "a rogue algorithm" caused chaos ... -
European Union, AI and data strategy
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri is the rapporteur for the industry committe for European Parliament’s own-initiative on data strategy and a standing rapporteur on the World Trade Organization e-commerce negotiations in the European ... -
A focus on both discrete skills and broader human skills
There is an interesting article by Allison Dulin Salisbury in the Forbes magazine this morning. The article says that the Covid 19 pandemic is speeding the digital transformation of business, ... -
Vocational courses not advanced enough
The Centre for London, a 'think tank' for the English capital, has released an interesting new report on further education in London. The report finds that further education in London ... -
SMEs are not the same as large firms
Much of my work at the moment is focused in two different areas - the training and professional development of teachers and trainers for the use of technology for teaching ... -
Is this the right way to use machine learning in education?
An article 'Predicting Employment through Machine Learning' by Linsey S. Hugo on the National Association of Colleges and Employers web site,confirms some of my worries about the use of machine ... -
Circular Economy and Lifelong Learning: Scenarios - Methodologies - In action
The momentum for the circular economy has never been stronger. Global issues, such as climate change and natural resource consumption levels, urgently require a change in our lifestyles and a ... -
Transferable skills and the future of work
There continues to be a flurry of newspaper articles and studies of teh effect of automation and Artificial Intelligence on employment and jobs. There are different predictions about the scale ...
