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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 ... -
Career Development: Identity, Innovation and Impact
On Thursday, 10th October 2019 I am delighted to be speaking at the conference on 'Career Development: Identity, Innovation and Impact' in Birmingham UK The conference will focus on career development ... -
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 ... -
Travel to university time a factor in student performance
My summer morning's work is settling into a routine. First I spend about half an hour learning Spanish on DuoLingo. Then I read the morning newsletters - OLDaily, WONKHE, The ... -
Is manufacturing finished in the UK?
The Guardian newspaper highlights a report by Cambridge University for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), showing that Britain’s manufacturing sector is much larger than official figures ... -
Automation and the future of work: the Chatbot
According to the Office for National Statistics, around 1.5 million jobs in England are at high risk of some of their duties and tasks being automated in the future. The ... -
Understanding Labour Market data
The increasing power of processors and the advent of Open Data provides us information in many areas of society including about the Labour Market. Labour Market data has many uses, ... -
Empower to Shape Change: Learning and Identities in the Changing World of Work
As regular readers of this blog will know, Pontydysgu were members of a consortium in a project called EmployID, funded by the European Commission. The project focused on changing work ... -
Developing a skills taxonomy
This morning's mailing from the Marchmont Employment and Skills Observatory reports that NESTA have launched an interesting new Tool - a UK skills taxonomy: “Skill shortages are costly and can ... -
The development of Labour Market Information systems
Over the past few years, part of my work has been involved in the design and development of Labour Market Information Systems. But just as with any facet of using ...