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Workshop on Ai and Vocational Education as part of European Vocational Skills Week
This week is European Vocational Skills Week. And as a partner of the European Vocational Skills Week the Taccle AI project, is organising an online workshop on "Artificial Intelligence for ... -
Rwanda teachers on how to safely reopen schools
The issue of safe reopening of schools after lockdowns in the Covid 19 pandemic is contentious in many countries, including the UK. Equally there is a debate going on as ... -
Data Driven Science
This diagram is from a tweet by Data Driven Science (@DrivenScience). Artificial Intelligence they say, is the broad discipline of creating intelligent machines. Machine Learning refers to systems that can ... -
The State of Data 2020
One result of the Covid 19 pandemic is it seems like every day now there are free events. This week is no exception and this conference looks great. I can't ... -
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 ... -
Economic catastrophe?
COVID-19 is turning from a health crisis into an economic catastrophe, says the UK based Nesta. With the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention scheme closing at the end of October, the ... -
Language courses and science, technology, engineering and maths subjects cut
Over the past few years there has been great emphasis placed in the UK on the importance of science, engineering, technology and maths (STEM) for the future development of the ... -
More ways of understanding the Labour Market
In most countries we have traditionally relied on official labour market agencies for data for understanding the labour market. From an education and training standpoint, that data has not always ... -
What's happening to the labour market?
Its pretty hard guessing the future of the labour market at the moment. How bad is the downturn from the Convid 19 pandemic going to be. Will there be U ... -
Accountability and algorithmic systems
There seems to be a growing awareness of the use and problems with algorithms - at least in the UK with what Boris Johnson called "a rogue algorithm" caused chaos ...