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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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Bridging the Skills Divide: Higher Education’s Role in Delivering the UK’s Plan for Change

HEPI

Higher education has always played a critical role in skills development, from professional fields like Medicine, Dentistry, and Engineering to more recent models such as degree apprenticeships.

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Enrollment Strategies for Moving Students through the Funnel

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Digital tactics include social media ads, blog content, and search engine optimization (SEO), while traditional methods include college fairs, in-person events, direct mail, and phone calls. Universities can use the following strategies to reach potential students: Use a mix of digital and traditional marketing. Personalize your tactics.

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What does our future workforce look like – and how are universities responding?

HEPI

At Queens University Belfast, for example, business partners such as PwC and construction firm Farrans are directly influencing apprenticeship course content and building talent streams in the areas where skills are most urgently needed, from digital software technology to civil engineering and building.

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Which manifesto will unlock the potential of England’s Lifelong Learning Entitlement?

HEPI

The UK’s skills shortages are more extensive among the existing workforce than new entrants; higher education is provided by a wider range of organisations than just universities; and there are more higher education qualifications than just degrees. It is long overdue.

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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.”