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Working Life
A report from the Trades Union Council in the UK finds that 1 in 8 of us will be forced to leave the labour market due to ill health or ... -
Global Event Policy Review
The International Labour Organisation is holding a Virtual event for the Launch of their Global Employment Policy Review on Wednesday 31 March at 1500 CET. They say "This event is ... -
Cyborg patented?
Forbes reports that Microsoft has obtained a patent for a “conversational chatbot of a specific person” created from images, recordings, participation in social networks, emails, letters, etc., coupled with the ... -
The impact of Al on the labour market
The debate goes on. Here is the latest discussion organised by the OECD. On February 1 from 1600 to 1700 CET. Go here to register. "What do we know about ... -
Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute's Week in Data newsletter This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to ... -
Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary. The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the ... -
Quality Training
From Raconteur. A recent report by global learning consultancy Kineo examined the learning intentions of 8,000 employees across 13 different industries. It found a huge gap between the quality of ... -
News from 1994
This is from a Tweet. In 1994 Stephen Heppell wrote in something called SCET" "Teachers are fundamental to this. They are professionals of considerable calibre. They are skilled at observing ... -
Graduate Jobs
As reported by WONKHE, a survey of 1,200 final year students conducted by Prospects in the UK found that 29 per cent have lost their jobs, and 26 per cent ... -
Post-Covid ed-tech strategy
The UK Ufi VocTech Trust are supporting the Association of Colleges to ensure colleges are supported to collectively overcome challenges to delivering online provision at scale. Over the course of ...