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T-levels are a disaster – and young people are suffering because ministers won’t admit it | Susanna Rustin

The Guardian - Higher Education

There are more than 20 T-level options , ranging from early years education to engineering, with each student choosing only one. But nearly five years on, the courses havent caught on.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

Specifically, the proportion of men in the three most prevalent groups of the technical workforce, ‘science, engineering and production technicians’, ‘IT technicians’ and ‘architectural technicians’, is much higher than that of women (5.0, percentage points, respectively). per cent); to have graduated from a post-1992 university (55.3

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International graduate elected mayor of UK city

The PIE News

.” A lecturer himself who had studied in the US as an agricultural engineer, her father sadly passed away in 2019 and Marshall-Katung felt compelled to fulfil his wishes of studying abroad. “I At that point in time, I knew going for further education in the UK was just something I needed to do.”

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Australian TNE looks to India as countries recognise qualifications

The PIE News

India’s International Financial Services Centres Authority, which announced the Deakin campus, said the centre will offer courses in Financial Management, FinTech, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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Edtech’s inclusive play: esports, preparing talent for the future of work

The PIE News

When the further education provider embraced first embraced esports in 2019 it was because “we saw an industry that was absolutely huge” “Over 90% of children and young people were playing games but actually this is an industry that included lots of different skills, professional skills, communication,” he continues.

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How Marta “credentialized” her work experience with the Northeastern DAE degree

Coursera blog

Learning the theory behind the application with the MS in Data Analytics Engineering As a working analytics engineer with a bachelor of arts in behavioral psychology from the University of Maine, Marta found herself craving further education that would be relevant to her career path.

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Looking to the future for our technical community

HEPI

Technical staff play a vital role in sustainable innovations , engineering, and domestic and international research in science, and they prop up our creative industries. Why it’s a great time to be a technician in higher education and research’ , HEPI blog, 28 September 2022. It is therefore critical that the sector responds now.

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