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Working with ESOL parents through storytelling
February 20th 2019
This practice exemplar from Glasgow Clyde College shows how a partnership approach helped parents, for whom English is a second or other language, to gain practical skills and know … Read more
Disadvantaged families to benefit from free early learning apps
February 20th 2019
Parents will benefit from interactive learning tools and text message tips to support children’s early language and literacy at home, as part of a society-wide push to make sure ch … Read more
2019 Books Unlocked reading list announced
February 20th 2019
The prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has announced the 10 books that participants will have available to read in 2019. Books Unlocked provides free copies of Man Booker Pr … Read more
Getting Skills Right: Future-Ready Adult Learning Systems
February 19th 2019
Many countries need to urgently scale-up and upgrade their adult learning systems to help people adapt to the future world of work, according to a new OECD report.
Maths and English condition of funding
February 13th 2019
From academic year 2019 to 2020, full time students with a grade 2 or below in maths or English can choose to study towards functionalskills level 2 or a GCSE grade 9 to 4. This al … Read more
Digital Skills in the NHS
February 11th 2019
This newly published report, led by US academic Eric Topol, predicts that 90% of all NHS jobs will require digital skills within 20 years, and calls for education providers to take … Read more
Call for GCSEs to be discontinued
February 11th 2019
GCSEs should be scrapped and A-levels should be replaced by a mix of academic and vocational subjects, says Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Select Committee.
Functional Skills courses online
February 8th 2019
A scheme to provide free functional skills courses online is being launched by The Open University in partnership with three FE colleges.
Collaborative Projects
January 30th 2019
On the 11 January Collaborative Project Leads joined our second online Webinar, led by Joanne Miles, extending and reinforcing approaches to measuring project impact explored durin … Read more
Digital Skills: teaching prisoners to code
January 15th 2019
We take a look at current intiatives that aim to enable prisoners to develop coding skills, build their confidence and increase their chances of employment on release.