
Fostering radical thinking on #education and #skills policy, for people at all ages and stages of their careers. Chaired by @AnnLimb.
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🚨REPORT | In partnership with @UniofNewcastle, we present and promote innovative strategies that enhance collaboration among education providers, businesses, and local governments, ultimately increasing access to skills and training opportunities.
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Qualification Reform Alone Won't Fix England's ‘Missing Middle’ In Higher Technical Education, Warns New @Lifelong_Ed Report | FE News fenews.co.uk/skills/qualific…
NEW REPORT | In partnership with @pearson, we explore why demand for Higher Technical Qualifications remains weak and fragmented, despite clear employer need and growing interest in flexible, career-relevant, learning. #lifelonglearning
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ICYMI: A New Youth Jobs Crisis Demands System Change |
Here is a great article from Mark Morrin @Lifelong_Ed
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#Milburn #NEETs
The real test of post-16 reform is not just whether it helps young people make a first transition. It is whether it helps create a lifelong learning mindset — one in which entering work is the beginning of a learning journey, not the end of one.
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AI and Uncertainty Are Gnawing at the Edges of the Job Market |
This is a fantastic article by Andy Forbes @Lifelong_Ed ... and very timely with today's ONS Labour market data
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#AI #LabourMarket
Where Are Apprenticeships Going Under The DWP? |
This is a cracking article from Andy Forbes, Executive Director of the Lifelong Education Institute
@Lifelong_Ed
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'Online services won’t be enough, it needs face-to face contact'
Andy Forbes of @Lifelong_Ed on why we need a 'UCAS for adults'
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Introducing some of the speakers for this year’s EAN Access & Admissions Forum 2025:
Andy Forbes: Executive Director of the @Lifelong_Ed
#STEM #Engineering #Learning #HigherEducation #Teaching
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Great @Lifelong_Ed panel at #Lab25 with @MaryCurnockCook, @AoCDavidH, Philip Augar, Andy Forbes and Malcolm Press (from @UniversitiesUK):
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Timely report launch panel today on the role of place in advancing skills development; @janeerobinson97: "We're at a pivotal point, we need to make these skills pathways & opportunities more visible, but we have to adopt a more collaborative approach" @UniofNewcastle @Lifelong_Ed – at Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
🚨REPORT | In partnership with @UniofNewcastle, we present and promote innovative strategies that enhance collaboration among education providers, businesses, and local governments, ultimately increasing access to skills and training opportunities.
lifelongeducation.uk/researc…
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New @Lifelong_Ed report:
England needs Regional Education Partnerships.
130+ skills bodies in 50 years have created fragmentation.
Check out the full report here:
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Kicking off our annual Summer Lecture with guest speaker Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS. We will be discussing the past, present, and future of Education and Skills policy, and the relation with productivity and the economy.
.@PJTheEconomist “The data tells us that getting a Level 4 qualification is incredibly valuable, more so than other kind of qualifications.”
.@PJTheEconomist “Issues shaping FE and Skills policy: 1) Long term decline in funding 2) Teacher pay and retention 3) T-levels and qualification reform 4) Role of Skills England 5) Devolution v centralisation 6) Apprenticeship levy reform 7) Lifelong Learning Entitlement”
Online Event | 1 week to go for our 'In conversation with Prof. Dame Sally Mapstone' event, discussing the future role of Universities, through the prism of the Government's upcoming announcements. @UniversitiesUK @univofstandrews
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After the Demise of Level 7 Apprenticeships, What Next? |
This is a cracking article from Andy Forbes @Lifelong_Ed looking at Level 7, pressures on the #Apprenticeship Budget, to #LLE to Adult Skills Accounts. Check it out:
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EVENT | Join us online on 16 July for the launch of our latest report, ‘Regional Education Partnerships’, in partnership with @UniofNewcastle: lifelongeducation.uk/event-d…
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Skills Strategy: Three Crucial Balances Need to Be Struck |
This is a really interesting article by @AnnLimb @Lifelong_Ed
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