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Time to tap the breaks?
Graham Brown Martin talks about Personalised Learning. Does #EdTech personalise, individualise or standardise, he asks? "In the age of big data and learning analytics, are we seeing Taylor's ideas - ... -
The end of the Obama era - the great Obama moments
In my previous blog I wrote from a personal point of view on the coming of a new era. But, of course from a global point of view I have ... -
Productivity and vocational education and training
Interest in Vocational Education and Training (VET) seems to go in cycles. Its always around but some times it is much more to the forefront than others as a debate ... -
The woes of Brexit
I have greatly enjoyed reading Pekka Kamareinen's series of posts on this website on the history of VETNET - the Vocational Education and Training network allied to the European educational ... -
Brexit, universities and research
Much of the concern expressed by UK universities regarding Brexit is linked to free movement of researchers and to the loss of income from European funded research. these are important ... -
Supporting start up businesses
One of the best things about Twitter is the ability to follow links to all kinds of things you probably would never have been to without ... -
Understanding that Brexit vote
Many of my friends from outside the UK have asked me however could people have voted for Brexit. And I have read countless newspaper columnists and analysts asking the smae ... -
We are not going away
I just checked the company documents. Pontydysgu was set up on 3 February 1999. In that time our work has moved from Vocational Education and Training to embrace the use ... -
Thinking about Entrepreneurship
For some time I have been interested in Entrepreneurship. For one thing I resented the way the Thatcher and Blair acolytes had stolen the word. Working class people have also ... -
BBC recipes and the battle for open
I found yesterdays protests about the BBC plans to archive their recipe site fascinating. After over 120000 people signed a petition protesting against the move and after the government culture ...