An excellent session with @LucasLearn, @KitchenWilly, Prof. John Butcher, and @UCEM_Principal Ashley Wheaton. How c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Smart Solar at Scale: Meeting the UK’s net-zero emissions and clean growth targets
Published: 18 March 2021This report examines the current regulatory and legislative framework that governs the UK’s energy system, with a focus on renewable sources of energy and the issues that arise from the...
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Size doesn’t matter: The arguments for place-based devolution
Published: 21 October 2020The long-awaited Devolution White Paper is expected to set out the new Conservative Government’s ambitions for extending new freedoms and responsibilities to the local state. This report examines the implications...
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How to improve the Health and Wellbeing of the UK population
Published: 25 June 2020You can find a summary of our report here. The coronavirus crisis has highlighted two things: the UK’s frontline NHS and care staff are skilled and selfless; the system...
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How a Minimum Floor Price on tobacco can achieve better policy objectives in Scotland
Published: 27 April 2020This report examines whether a minimum floor price for tobacco can achieve better policy objectives in Scotland, including public health outcomes. A choice-modelling exercise, with a representative sample of over...
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Skills for jobs that don’t yet exist: A new system for the fourth industrial revolution
Published: 05 December 2019A key issue for the UK’s economy is how we meet the challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the future of work. Central to this challenge is the question...
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Don’t Breathe In: Bridging the Asbestos Safety Gap
Published: 25 November 2019This report is part of our UK-wide campaign ‘Airtight on Asbestos’ you can find the full report here. Sometimes a danger can be everywhere and appear nowhere at all....
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Credit Emancipation: How salary-linked lending can help turn around disadvantaged places
Published: 12 September 2018This report makes the case for a place-based approach to building credit. We argue that improving aggregate credit scores at the local authority level can help to address the problems...
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Coming Home to Roost: The British Poultry Meat Industry After Brexit
Published: 05 September 2018What will happen to the UK’s poultry meat sector after Brexit? Will producers and consumers alike be willing to pay potentially higher prices? Or will they be happy to compromise...
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ONLINE GAMBLING: Addicted to Addiction
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“TECHNOPOLY” and what to do about it: Reform, Redress and Regulation
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.@CSkidmoreUK Thanks to everyone for their contributions today. This has been an excellent discussion. #lifelonglearning
.@UCEM_Principal How can regulation improve diversity? You need to guard against the de-standardisation of models.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal The key to our success, as an institution, is flexibility. We give every student a maximum of 12 y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal Lifelong learning can be linked to industrial strength. So yes, aligning industrial policy to that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal There is a vested interest in monolithic undergraduate education. This, I believe, is a direct thr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal Turning to the student, how do you measure satisfaction in a student population that may have atte… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal Our assessment methodology is out-of-date. It is also pointless to increase the supply of skills w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal Credit transfer needs a lot of careful thought and planning. My view: we need a centralised networ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal Third, the funding regime needs greater integration and greater liberalisation - e.g., the apprent… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal Second, this system must be supported by the certification regime and represented in the baseline:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal The big theme is interoperability. First, government. Without government support, this agenda will… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@UCEM_Principal I am 100% supportive of this agenda. My institution has been plowing this furrow for 102 years. Ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@KitchenWilly Personally, I'd be very hesitant to go to a Chief Executive and say "let's uproot a model that has w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Can Universities give up their addiction to the three-year degree? Or would the financial situation n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@KitchenWilly At Sheffield, adult learners do better, on average, than 18-year old undergraduate students with ABB… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@KitchenWilly This isn't a zero-sum game: you need similar investments in different areas, rather than trading off… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@KitchenWilly Second, there are unforeseen consequences to systemic change. Not all of these changes are negative.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@KitchenWilly There is a pitfall in seeking to be all things to all people. We may lose the 'essence' of the trans… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Professor John Butcher: Is it better to encourage partnership? Yes. At the Open University, we have been able to c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Professor John Butcher: In terms of behavioural economic research, the biggest impact on adult learner behaviour ha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Professor John Butcher: For adult learners, current pathways, and financial arrangements for those pathways, are ov… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Professor John Butcher: Are we making enough of the FE sector? No. It's a perceived 'dumping ground' for NEETS. Tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Professor John Butcher: If we're talking about adult learners, the key thing is confidence. You need to build up co… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK What do you think about the Open University learning model? Can it be transposed? Is it scalable? #lifelonglearning
Professor John Butcher: Finally, let's look at learning models from the Celtic nations. Northern Ireland, for examp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Professor John Butcher: Fifth, the current financial system is poorly equipped for adult learners. We need to look… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Professor John Butcher: Fourth, let's be inclusive of local needs and local skill improvement plans. Particularly f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…