Science Capital Team. To continue with science post-16, young people must achieve certain levels of understanding and attainment. Crucially, they must also feel that science is a good ‘fit’ for them – that science is ‘for me’. Drawing on more…
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Brexit: German universities among those poised to benefit if researchers and funding shift
Humboldt University in Berlin. German universities may emerge as ‘winners’ from Brexit. Tilemahos Efthimiadis, CC BY Aline Courtois The UK is currently the second-largest recipient of competitive research funding from the EU: 6% of students and 17% of staff in…
Tagged with: Brexit, European higher education, research funding, universities
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
So what is Further Education? And why is it so hard to define?
Martin Doel. According to a recently released CBI Report – In Perfect Harmony: Improving Skills Delivery in England – the English skills system has undergone 28 major reform programmes in the past 30 years. The result, the report argues, is…
Tagged with: further education, Martin Doel
Posted in Education policy, Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Education policy, Further higher and lifelong education
‘We’re preparing our army for the last war’: why the academic-vocational divide must fall
IOE Events. Vocational education suffers from its second class status – variously seen as a ‘consolation prize’ and ‘for other people’s children’. It deserves better – for its own sake and for the sake of social justice, but also, as…
Britain’s endless skills problems: why academics and policy wonks need to communicate
Francis Green. The OECD and the Institute for Public Policy Research came together this week to launch complementary reports on Britain’s long-term skills problem and what should be done about it. The event unfurled in august surroundings, at the offices…
Tagged with: employment, Francis Green, inequality, skills shortage
Posted in Employment and skills, Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Employment and skills, Further higher and lifelong education
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