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  • 6 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

    The country needs us so why treat ITPs as second-class providers?

  • 1 week ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

    More from this theme Recent articles If you missed last week’s AI-in-education announcements, AI ‘Testbeds’ will share £1 million across colleges. Yes, the Department for Education – which couldn’t set up the Multiply website with £110m – thinks £5,000 per college will have us competing with Silicon Valley. What’s more, the government launched ‘Techyouth’ – basically ‘I Call App Britain’ from The Thick of It. And finally, the DfE’s embarrassingly-overdue AI guidance arrived.

  • 1 week ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

    More from this theme Recent articles England has one of the most diverse apprenticeship systems in the world. But while that diversity brings choice to apprentices and flexibility to employers, it has allowed poor quality training to proliferate. The resulting system is failing young people, employers and our economy – which desperately needs skilled workers.

  • 1 week ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

    More from this theme Recent articles I have been involved with Access to HE for well over 30 years, first as a student and then as a tutor, co-ordinator, quality assurer and finally quality manager for Laser Learning Awards. We are one of the nine Access validating agencies licensed by the QAA to approve centres to deliver Access to HE qualifications. Access certainly does transform lives; it did mine and I have seen it with countless other students during the course of my career.

  • 1 week ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

    More from this theme Recent articles Lifelong learning increases people’s likelihood of being in employment, boosts their earnings and reduces the amount of time spent on out-of-work benefits. So says our latest research, commissioned by Phoenix Insights. Ministers targeting an 80 per cent employment rate and savings in the welfare system should take note. When adults learn, our society and economy thrive.

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Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill @jessjanehill
11 Jun 25

Colleges and schools have already been using AI in this way for years. The timing of this announcement feels like too little, too late to me

FE Week
FE Week @FEWeek

👩‍💻 Colleges could use AI to help monitor attendance patterns, generate tender documents and come up with ideas for lessons, new government toolkits have said https://t.co/xJaezoHauF

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill @jessjanehill
15 May 25

RT @FEWeek: 'I am now amending my opinion to describe the situation as both retrograde and ridiculous' @mandy_m13skills of @UVAC1 on DfE's…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill @jessjanehill
21 Mar 25

The rise of toxic masculinity is something FE colleges are increasingly having to grapple with. @pollyharrow calls for government action on one of the biggest social issues of our times https://t.co/i1aK0hkyCo