The Advanced British Standard – ABS qualification?
Rishi Sunak announces a new qualification, the Advanced British Standard, throwing planned qualification reforms into disarray. I question if this is the right way to…
Qualifications
Further Education in the UK Needs a Reboot
Hadi Moussa, Managing Director (EMEA) at Coursera, discusses how flexible learning models are essential to bridge the digital skills gap and prepare the UK to…
College funding is a crisis which often fails to make headlines
The government’s record on education funding is particularly woeful in respect of colleges, says Anne Murdoch, college leadership adviser at the Association of School and…
West London College launches T-Levels in Business, Digital, Health and Science
West London College is launching four T-Levels in Business, Digital, Health and Science to start this September 2023. Introduced by the Government to ensure young…
Could some students have better earning return studying at an FE college instead of university?
Social Mobility Commission calls for central information hub on labour market returns for HE and FE A new report out today by the Social Mobility…
Level 2 and 3 qualification reforms – a forward look
Karl Anderson explains why the new employer-led approvals system for level 3 technical qualifications is needed and how it will work. All the key reviews…
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…
AoC: “No qualifications which overlap with T Levels should be defunded until T Levels are fully tried and tested”
In response to today’s announcement by the Department of Education, confirming the defunding of a number of qualifications, Association of Colleges, the national voice for…
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…
When is a qualification, not a qualification? Defunding the Level 3
The defunding of level three qualifications took a swerve toward the peculiar following the national announcement earlier this month. Whilst there are clearly obvious overlaps…