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THREAD | Key talking points from our online event event 'A new social contract for #EducationandSkills' with @LSEnews' Pro…
You can find the full recording of our online event 'A new social contract for #EducationandSkills' on our YouTube… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@tobyperkinsmp I don’ think that budget is the whole of the answer for #EducaitonandSkills, but it is certainly a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@tobyperkinsmp The apprenticeships policy has focussed far too much on what works for big organisations and far to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@tobyperkinsmp Institutions that provide skills training need to be conscious about and fit-in with the ability of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@tobyperkinsmp We need a skills policy that is based around the kind of economy we currently have, as well as the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@tobyperkinsmp A skills policy is only as good as the industrial strategy that goes with it. We need a wholistic a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@tobyperkinsmp It is simplistic to say that Further Education has failed. The political class over the last decade… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black Are we aiming for collaboration, or competition? Are we aiming at a national basis or a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black We haven’t resolved whether universities or further education providers are utilities o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black At what scale do we take this forward? At the national level? At the local and regional… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black 4)What about the education institutions themselves? What is their mission? It might be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black 3) What do individuals want in this? It might mean getting a high salary, caring for so… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black We are trying to resolve a policy quadrilemma.
1) The goals of government are to provid… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black These will be the future-proofing skills around problem solving, communication, indepen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black If you look at employability skills and jobs for the future – A NESTA analysis of 41 mi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black We need both knowledge bases [STEM and SHAPE subjects] to be equally strong and equally… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black We need to rethink people’s identity, their relationship to their jobs, and what it mea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black Often there is a harking back to real jobs for real men hammering away in heavy industr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black There is often a policy dissonance between the economy we have and the economy which po… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black What kind of future are we trying to build? Is it always captured in the matrix of econ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@LSEnews Prof. Julia Black What are we preparing people for? What kind of society and economy do we want? We never… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK You could potentially have your cake and eat it by having a university route, but bedding in a techni… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Many universities are very well placed to offer higher technical qualifications for the future. We’ve… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK In terms of the future of work, we can’t fight the previous decades battles. We need to avoid baking… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK We need to look again at modular learning and how we can create finance and funding that can allow pe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK I passionately believe that universities and institutions are already entrenched in local communities… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK But I wouldn’t want to make the strong weak, to make the weak strong. We shouldn’t bring down the HE… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK We also need to look at the issues of qualifications and skills outside of universities. There has be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…