Signs and wonders: Better CEIAG
2022-03-18
What is CEIAG and how does know what it is help us improve it?
The lifelong learning buffet needs nutritional oversight
2022-01-21
Reskilling may help workers feed their families – but a plateful of modules may not add up to a square educational meal
Vocational qualifications: don’t turn off the tap to make T
2021-07-14
Not a single person has taken a T-level yet and there are still no solutions to finding enough employer support, but DfE thinks we should axe all alternatives.
Invention, engineering and creativity
2021-04-16
Prince Philip said, “everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer”. Was he right or did he do a disservice to engineers and artists?
The long Covid of careers
2020-10-27
The long Covid of careers: What’s the equivalent of hand-washing and mask-wearing for young people’s careers
Oxbow lakes: What we learn when we learn
2020-10-01
What links oxbow lakes, metacognition and employability skills? We’ll get to that shortly. But first, if you want to know what works in creating social opportunity through education, you’d be hard pressed to find a better expert than Lee Elliot Major, former chief executive of The Sutton Trust and now Exeter University’s professor of social mobility. Yesterday he gave a lecture at the Institute of Education (well, virtually) in which one slide pretty much summed up the toolkit produced by the Education Endowment Foundation and the content of his own book (with co-author Steve Higgins) What Works. (Thanks to Lee for permission to use the slideRead More →
