Policy breakfast briefing: Where's the Spending Review left Apprenticeships and Skills Training?
This education policy briefing looked at how to fund future skills training. You can watch the video here.
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This education policy briefing looked at how to fund future skills training. You can watch the video here.
With changes to degree awarding powers, teaching excellence and potentially regulation all included in what the HE Minister called 'a wide-ranging' Green Paper, this Hot Breakfast event looked at how things are shaping up for UK higher education.
At this event, our panellists discussed the outcome of the UK general election held on 7 May 2015, and what it means for education in the UK. You can watch the video here.
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This policy breakfast briefing looked at schools policy in the UK in relation to the upcoming 2015 general election. You can watch the video here.
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This event looked at qualification reform, particularly that for 14-19 year olds, and considered how the reform programme looks now. You can watch the video here.
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This event looked at how the ways primary children are assessed and primary schools are judged are about to be radically overhauled. You can watch the video here.
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May 7 2014 marked the one-year countdown to the UK's 2015 general election. We hosted a special policy breakfast briefing to consider what the election might have in store for education. You can watch the video here.
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What will the classroom of the future look like? Pearson UK invited several speakers to the Pearson Lab at Makerversity, a space for makers at Somerset House, London, to discuss how technology is starting to change the nature of learning. You can watch the video here.
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The 2011 higher education white paper recommended some major changes to the English system. This event looked at the main themes – you can watch the video here.
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What does the Wolf Report mean for UK schools and colleges? This event looked at Alison Wolf’s 2011 review of vocational education, its context and its impact in detail. You can watch the video here.
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