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Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

Ben RowlandBen Pike

2h | Training providers
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A fake press release put our college in an AI-generated story

Claire Reynolds

2h | Colleges
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Building my own AI agent made me a better skills coach

Jamie Hibbert

2h | Teaching
Jamie Hibbert
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Burnham: If you want real technical parity, start with VAT

John Thornhill

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John Thornhill
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Financial independence should be the goal of careers education

Keith Conway

2h | Ofsted
Keith Conway
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Universities must be part of the next chapter of skills devolution

Paula Barker

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It’s time to end the academic-technical divide

Bill Jones

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Is the LLE really a ‘worklong learning entitlement’?

Clare Chambers

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What’s in your learners’ emotional backpacks?

Clair Priest

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Forget AI cheating. Cognitive offloading is more of a worry

James Wells

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AI is moving fast. SME training is stuck in the slow lane

Allan Allison

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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs

John YarhamDan Heffernan

2w | Skills reform
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New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

Alun Francis

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Alun Francis
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Low-attendance college students aren’t ‘hidden NEETs’

Eddie Playfair

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Eddie Playfair
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English resits are treating the symptom, not the cause

Tony Davis

2w | Students
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We’re losing the Saturday job and gaining a bigger problem

Mark Cameron

2w | Skills reform

The chancellor must raise apprenticeship funding bands

Robert Halfon

2w | Skills reform

The AI jobs debate is missing the skilled trades

Sharon Hague

2w | Skills reform

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Pathway to devolution test delays adult learning courses

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ESOL waiting lists and duplication tackled by GLA

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Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

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Dale’s mission to ride a zipline of happiness

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Bickering big beasts’ sideshow is Tory skills highlight
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Financial independence should be the goal of careers education
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Movers & Shakers: Edition 554
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Building my own AI agent made me a better skills coach
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