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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 ... -
Transferable skills and the future of work
There continues to be a flurry of newspaper articles and studies of teh effect of automation and Artificial Intelligence on employment and jobs. There are different predictions about the scale ... -
Automation and the future of work: the Chatbot
According to the Office for National Statistics, around 1.5 million jobs in England are at high risk of some of their duties and tasks being automated in the future. The ... -
Understanding Labour Market data
The increasing power of processors and the advent of Open Data provides us information in many areas of society including about the Labour Market. Labour Market data has many uses, ... -
Empower to Shape Change: Learning and Identities in the Changing World of Work
As regular readers of this blog will know, Pontydysgu were members of a consortium in a project called EmployID, funded by the European Commission. The project focused on changing work ... -
AI and vocational education and training
I have been working on writing a proposal on Artificial Intelligence and teh training of teachers and trainers in Vocational Education and Training. So I've spent a few days chasing ... -
Exploring my Personal Learning Environment
It has been a bit busy lately. I seem to be writing one report after another. Anyway I got asked ages ago if a I would make a contribution on ... -
Teachers tense and dissatisfied
The UK National Foundation for Educational (NFER) research have published the first of what they say will be an annual report on the state of the teacher Labour Market. The ... -
The Circular Economy and Education
Last week I spoke at a meeting - Circular Economy Competences Making the Case for Lifelong Learning - at the European Parliament in Brussels. The meeting was hosted by MEP ... -
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 - ...