New Zealand’s Vocational Education System: The Story So Far
New Zealand’s education system has been changing rapidly in the last few years with significantly more change to come. In this first article in a…
Stuart Martin
The Importance of Maintaining Devolved Qualifications Regulation
I’ve been having some very interesting discussions on LinkedIn about funding education in the UK and whether merging the UK’s four separate qualifications regulators into…
Why and How Education Should Be Preparing for War
As we begin 2025, the world finds itself grappling with numerous conflicts, and the potential for even greater escalation looms ominously. Some politicians argue that…
The Value of Credentials
Stuart explores how micro-credentials are currently being utilised within the UK and discusses how the vocational education sector is currently not as engaged as the…
Formalising the informal?
Paul Grainger’s 25th April article exploring the role that micro-credentials can play in the economy and lifelong learning was an interesting take on their use.…
How industry can help fix its skill shortage problems for now and the future
In this article, Stuart discusses the benefits of micro-credentials for both employment and apprenticeships. 2023 outlook, A perfect storm for industry At the beginning of…
Micro-credentials in the Asia-Pacific
In September 2022 I had the honour of moderating the final panel of the APAC TVET Forum 2022, a panel all about micro-credentials. The panel…
What is the future of Micro, Nano and Digital credentialing?
#Credentials #DigitalCredentials #MicroCredentials #NanoCredentials! Micro, Nano, Digital. Do they all mean the same thing? Do different countries define them differently? All of these terms have…