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Bandura’s Social Learning Theory highlights that learning is a social activity. It directs our attention to the power of modelling & observing in the classroom. This article explains more about the concept of social learning and how your students can benefit.

Preparing students for progression to university requires more than just a strong grounding in academic understanding, students also need to be equipped with the right developmental skills such as the ability to learn independent, critical thinking, communication and creativity.

The approach of the school holidays means that lots of teachers have the chance to pause, take a breath and reflect on the previous academic year. During term time, it can be hard to find a spare moment to keep up with the latest research. Yet at the same time, many teachers are keen to keep abreast of the latest pedagogical research and see how it could improve their teaching practice.

One of the major challenges for teachers and school leaders is how to meet the challenge of the Computing curriculum, especially at Primary and Lower Secondary and provide a rounded, thought provoking and engaging curriculum for students to help prepare them for the world ahead and inspire more to take computing-based courses at Key Stage 4 and beyond.

My previous blog post went slightly off topic in terms of the physical delivery of the BTEC and peaked beyond the boundaries of a specification in order to highlight the opportunities available to schools and colleges outside of the classroom. As it turned out, the responses and reaction to that took me pleasantly by surprise as it clearly helped educators to start to think about the bigger picture and the potential of the esports offer to any curriculum. But this article sees a return to the teaching and the beast that is Unit 2!

In an educational setting the mere utter of the phrase ‘esports’ often results in two polar opposite reactions: the first, one of excitement and the second, one of fear. Both exist at whatever level in the hierarchy the respondent sits.

The sports industry continues to grow and diversify, reaching a value of nearly $488.5bn in 2018, with an expected growth to nearly $614.1bn by 2022*. Not only is there growth in the value, but most importantly there is growth in the diversity of opportunity within the sector, with the rising availability and consumption of sports content available through a broadening of the availability of the internet. Evidencing this change, the sports audience for Indian TV increased by 7% during 2017, creating 46 billion online impressions in 2018**.

Today, we are announcing our actions related to the situation in Ukraine, which include suspending the sales of our products and services in Russia and Belarus.

The annual BTEC Awards – now in their 12th year – recognise and celebrate the hard work and dedication of BTEC learners, educators, and providers from all around the globe. BTECs offer learners aged 16 and above the knowledge, understanding and skills that they need to prepare for a career, continue in further education, or progress to higher education.