-
A European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships
A European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships (2018/C 153/01) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Recommendation aims at increasing the employability and personal ... -
Coding for the young (and not so young)
It is encouraging to see more courses being developed for young people to learn to code. The latest comes from the Technical University of Graz who are s starting a ... -
Demonstrating the Value of Community Development Approaches
This is a video of a conference I spoke at in Dublin in April organised by the Clondalkin Community Alcohol and Drugs Task Force. The conference followed the publication of ... -
Open Leadership
I like the open leadership map white paper released by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla say: Open Leadership is the “how” of our work. It’s how we accomplish our work in ... -
The problems of assessing competence
It was interesting to read Simon Reddy’s article in FE News, The Problem with Further Education and Apprenticeship Qualifications, lamenting the low standard of training in plumbing the UK and ... -
Places and Spaces – facilitating professional learning and identity transformation in European Public Employment Services
I have just submitted an abstract to the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). This years conference is at the Free University Bolzano in Italy in September. The proposed paper ... -
Industry 4.0 and identity transformation
I gave this presentation last week at a panel discussion on Industry 4.0 at the Bundeswehr AusBildungs Kongress in Hamburg. Firstly - for those of you who do not ... -
An action research approach to studying apprenticeship in Spain
This is a new paper, written by Graham Attwell and Ana Garcia about the new apprenticeship system in Spain. The research was sponsored by the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship ... -
Visualising jobs
As ever I am doing lots of work on labour market data and education and training. While we know pretty well how to take great slabs of data and turn ... -
More thoughts on Workplace Learning Analytics
I have been looking at the potential of Learning Analytics (LA) for professional development of employees in European Public Employment services as part of the European funded EmployID project. Despite ...
