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Skillsoft’s Lean Into Learning: 2021 Annual Learning Report provides data and guidance for addressing skills gaps, hybrid learning, and the war for talent Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL), a global leader in corporate digital learning, today released its Lean Into Learning: 2021 Annual Learning Report, exploring the top challenges and opportunities facing today’s workforce, as well as Continue reading Skillsoft Releases New Report Exploring 2021 Learning Trends and the Future of Skill Building
Shirley-Anne Somerville It remains the government’s ‘firm intention’ to hold National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher exams this Spring, Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has restated. Taking into consideration ongoing disruption within schools, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has decided to invoke its Scenario 2 contingency and will provide revision support in early March Continue reading Scotland: Exams on track
UK Schools were closed to all but key worker children on 5 January 2021 in response to COVID-19 – and re-opened on 8 March 2021. As schools re-open, and teachers adjust to their post-covid teaching jobs, Reuters reveals that the British government has pledged a £700m support package to help primary and secondary schoolchildren to Continue reading Pandemic: How Teachers Can Help Pupils to Catch Up
Schools are predominantly set up to teach children born in different years. With twins and multiples, it can become a challenge to ensure their needs are considered and that they are included. This extends to how teachers and schools communicate with them and their parents, whether or not the siblings are taught in the same Continue reading Teaching Twins and Multiples: A Teacher’s Guide
Thousands of roles available in the ‘hidden’ employability industry as the sector prepares for the busiest time in its history Employability Day on 30 April 2021, was the UK’s largest celebration for organisations supporting often disadvantaged people to gain, sustain and progress in work. Led by the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), it’s an annual Continue reading TIME TO DO WHAT THE EMPLOYABILITY INDUSTRY DOES BEST: RECRUIT
Whizz Education, provider of the leading virtual tutor Maths-Whizz, has quantified the lockdown learning loss in maths experienced by 5–13-year-olds in the UK. Whizz Education’s research shows that 46% of the 1,721 children assessed experienced a learning loss, exhibiting an average of knowledge decline of eight months during the first lockdown. Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director Continue reading Whizz Education Quantifies Maths Lockdown Learning Loss
YPO, one of the UK’s largest public sector buying organisations, has made three appointments across its board and senior leadership teams, as part of a wider focus on stability and pandemic recovery for the organisation. Julie Hawley will be taking the role of executive director of finance, Jacquie Lightfoot will be joining YPO as executive Continue reading YPO LOOKS TOWARDS POST-PANDEMIC SUCCESS WITH THREE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS
Fleur Sexton “Giving the next generation of our workforce an insider view of how our world works is absolute gold” With the pandemic sabotaging so many key experiences that should be shaping young people’s lives and aspirations, work experience is one area where businesses can step up their game and provide invaluable Continue reading Leading Coventry businesswoman urges other businesses to ‘think outside the box’ and provide remote work experience for school pupils during lockdown
Steve Swinden, Flamefast CEO, with CO2 monitor Reporter: Stacy Clarke A report by Government scientists suggested that coronavirus could be checked using CO2 monitors. As pupils and teachers return to classrooms after half term, major concern is currently being expressed throughout the UK for their health and safety and the threat of airborne Continue reading Carbon dioxide monitors could warn of unsafe Covid transmission indoors, scientists say
Abbot’s Way school With schools increasingly relying on digital technologies and cloud-based storage and services to plan and teach the curriculum as well as to communicate with parents and carers, fast, reliable internet access is now essential in education. For community focused ISP Truespeed, pledging free ultrafast broadband for life to schools passed Continue reading Truespeed gives Somerset schools free ultrafast full fibre broadband boost
This year, Women’s Equality Day celebrated its hundredth milestone, celebrating the date of which women in the US gained the right to vote for the very first time. Since 1920, the world has dramatically changed for women in every sector, from making strides in their education and in their work, to winning more nobel prizes Continue reading Women’s Equality Day 2020: Let’s hear it for the girls!
VC Professor Shearer West Reporter: Stuart Littleford – News An online fundraising appeal to support coronavirus (COVID-19) research and ease student hardship has been launched by the University of Nottingham. The University is at the forefront of global efforts to understand and control the coronavirus pandemic, with a multidisciplinary team working to find Continue reading Nottingham launches COVID-19 fundraising appeal
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