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Conversational learning and evidence based education
I have missed out on this autumn's conference circuit. I just don't have the money to pay for fees and travel (let alone beer) in attending these events. I am ... -
Data, expenditure and the quality of Higher Education
In this brave new data world, we seem to get daily reports on the latest statistics about education. It si not easy making sense of it all. Times Higher Education ... -
Boot camps closing
Interesting press release from Reuters regarding the American Coding Boot Camps - a model some policy makers in Europe have been looking at as a model for adoption. Reuters report ... -
What is industry 4.0?
I've long wondered what is meant by industry 4.0. Some shining techno world of robots and Artificial Intelligence? Or the end of batch production for individualised goods (although we have ... -
Why is there such a big gender difference in graduate employment
In our work on Labour Market Information Systems, we frequently talk about the differences between labour market information and labour market intelligence in terms of making sense and meanings from ... -
An action research approach to studying apprenticeship in Spain
This is a new paper, written by Graham Attwell and Ana Garcia about the new apprenticeship system in Spain. The research was sponsored by the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship ... -
The future of learning is social?
In the stream of tweets passing by on the top of my screen I noticed a link to a article called 'The end of Formal Learning Content' by Juliette Denny ... -
Stress and academic identities
I was planning to write an article on academics and ‘well being’ today so it is somewhat serendipitous that Twitter gave me a link to an article in Times Higher ... -
Open Education and Story Telling
I Like this short video by Frances Bell for many reasons. First it is a great example of how video can easily be used to tell a story. And it ... -
Visualising jobs
As ever I am doing lots of work on labour market data and education and training. While we know pretty well how to take great slabs of data and turn ...