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Understanding the gender pay gap
We have written before about the gender pay gap in the UK. According to the Office for National Statistics the average hourly (gross, excluding overtime) gender pay gap in the ... -
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 ... -
Learning Analytics Cymru
Jisc report that "Learning Analytics Cymru is generating interest across the world." The service, which has every higher education institution in Wales signed up and is supported by the Welsh ... -
Cite your data
Neat short video from the UK data service about why and how you should cite data. Citations are always a bit of a pain, but the video shows how using ... -
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 ... -
Understanding data about society
I have often written about the problems in interpreting and making sense of data. I very much like an article 'What drives anti-migrant attitudes' by Vera Messing and Bence Ságvári ... -
Where do graduates come from and where do they go?
The Great British Brain Drain: graduate gain and loss in Glasgow from Centre for Cities I've written too many times about the problems in sense making from data - ... -
Young people living with parents for longer
WONKHE reports there has been a significant rise in the number of 20 to 34-year-olds living with their parents in the UK, according to analysis of the Labour Force Survey ... -
AI and education
newsfromthelab.wordpress.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site. Fear you are going to be seeing this headline quite a bit in coming months. And like everyone else ... -
Graduate Jobs
MPs on the UK House of Commons education committee have released a report titled “Value for Money in Higher Education.” They draw attention to figures from the Office for National ...
