When IT Meets Politics
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Helping Employers (and Ministers) make sense of the many UK Skills initiatives.
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2022 -
Levelling Up Access to Jobs
- Winsafe Ltd 13 Feb 2022 -
2022: Time to take algorithm-enhanced online abuse seriously
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Jan 2022
We have a morass of vocational education, careers and skills initiatives competing for funds and attention. Most are organised by those (including Departments and Agencies) unaware of what others ...
Over 400 employers attended a briefing with officials from Home Office and DCMS on 27th January when we learned that, welcome though the new processes are, those without a current UK passport will ...
The algorithms used by dominant social media companies have compounded the risks to unsupervised children in their bedrooms by automating the processes predators use to find and groom potential ...
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Setting the Skills and Employment Agenda for 2022 and beyond
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Dec 2021 -
Towards UK Skills and Employment Policies for a Post-Pandemic World
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Dec 2021 -
Forced on-line by the NHS: to be confused, exploited, ignored, mistreated and/or patronised
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Nov 2021 -
Skills and Employment Policy for the digital age
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Oct 2021 -
Cashing in on the Chips: The view from 1979
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Oct 2021 -
STEM schooling for a world of lifelong training
- Winsafe Ltd 30 Sep 2021 -
Tell Number 10 How to Promote Lifelong Training in the Digital Age
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Sep 2021
Education for one career for life is now the exception not the norm for most school-leavers and graduates. The current workforce is on a treadmill of change. This is accelerating faster than most ...
Covid has already precipitated the biggest challenge to UK education structures since the dissolution of the monasteries and chantries led to the creation of the grammar schools which educated ...
All this informed my MSc IT Security final dissertation entitled ‘Inclusion, Confusion and Exclusion – is technology making the Vulnerable more Vulnerable?’ I looked at Social, Financial and ...
The pace of change has accelerated and centralised planning can no longer keep up. Widening workforce skills gaps require investment on a scale akin to that made in higher education but structured ...
The threat to jobs is a fashionable topic for speculation but, by comparison, it is a non-problem. Already we have chronic labour shortages side by side with rising unemployment. It is clear that ...
How do we integrate the lessons learned since March 2020 and build on the existing abundance of material to “construct a really cracking educational experience to ensure that lifelong learning is ...
Focus public funding/support and performance monitoring on the delivery of micro-modules to get trainees into jobs rather apprenticeships, degrees and qualifications
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Turning lifelong training for multi-career lives from aspiration into reality
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Sep 2021 -
Making a Reality of Lifelong Training in the Digital Age
- Winsafe Ltd 13 Sep 2021 -
A call to rebuild the Department for Education and Skills
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Sep 2021 -
Making a reality of Lifelong learning for the Digital Age
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Aug 2021 -
Ofcom risks sinking Government levelling up agenda
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Aug 2021
Most of the skills in demand today will need updating inside a couple of years. Lockdown saw massive advances in the use of on-line content, support and mentoring but it also opened massive divides ...
I should add that I too am interesting in life-long learning but that is not enough. It can be a gateway to training but learning the theory of tennis is not sufficient to produce a winner, let ...
In the light of the forthcoming party conferences, and rumoured reshuffles, I hope the Government can quickly move on to making the UK once again a world-leader in technological education and ...
Lifelong learning is again fashionable. The on-line world is awash with on-line education and training materials from “uncurated” global sites such Udemy (155,000 offerings), through sectoral sites ...
The Openreach "Equinox" offer puts Government plans to expedite broadband roll out at risk. It jeopardises the roll out plans of Virgin, Vodafone, City Fibre, Hyperoptic and fifty or so players by ...