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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 ... -
More thoughts on Workplace Learning Analytics
I have been looking at the potential of Learning Analytics (LA) for professional development of employees in European Public Employment services as part of the European funded EmployID project. Despite ... -
The open in MOOC must include the ability to create courses
However you view MOOCs, they have been a success in moving towards open education and in allowing thousands of people not enrolled in formal education programmes to take part in ... -
More about competency based education
Just a quick addendum to my earlier article on competency based education. Things go round and much of my experience was from providing professional development to teachers and trainers for ... -
What's the problem with competency based education?
I got this diagram from a report by Katherine Hockey on the Accelerating Digital Transformation in Higher Education conference, I’ll write more about some of the topics Katherine raises, but ...