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OER18: Open to All,
The OER18 Conference takes place in Bristol, UK on 18 - 19 April 2018. OER18 is the 9th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy. The final keynote ... -
Learning about technology
According to the University Technical Colleges web site, new research released of 11 to 17-year-olds, commissioned by the Baker Dearing Educational Trust, the charity which promotes and supports University Technical ... -
The threat to research
I just realsied I had not updated the editorial since July last year. Then I wrote a hasty and angry editorial about the threat that Brexit posed to Pontydysgu and ... -
MOOC providers in 2016
According to Class Central a quarter of the new MOOC users in 2016 came from regional MOOC providers such as XuetangX (China) and MirĂada X (Latin America). They list the ... -
Jobs in cyber security
In a new fact sheet the Tech Partnership reveals that UK cyber workforce has grown by 160% in the five years to 2016. 58,000 people now work in cyber security, ... -
Number students outside EU falls in UK
Times Higher Education reports the number of first-year students from outside the European Union enrolling at UK universities fell by 1 per cent from 2014-15 to 2015-16, according to data ... -
Peer Review
According to the Guardian, research conducted with more than 6,300 authors of journal articles, peer reviewers and journal editors revealed that over two-thirds of researchers who have never peer reviewed ... -
Teachers and overtime
According to the TES teachers in the UK "are more likely to work unpaid overtime than staff in any other industry, with some working almost 13 extra hours per week, ... -
The future of English Further Education
The UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee has warned the declining financial health of many FE colleges has "potentially serious consequences for learners and local economies". It finds funding and oversight ...
