New year, same us: what to expect from Skills Forward in 2021
Dan Howard looks at the year ahead and some of the exciting eLearning and assessment developments from Skills Forward that’ll help keep your learners online and on track.
You CAN learn to be creative
As part of a series on the employability skills job seekers need to find sustainable employment, Dan Howard discusses creativity and how everyone can unlock their inner creative.
Finding motivation during a global pandemic
Dan Howard explores how to develop motivation in your learners, and yourself, to support ‘generation Covid’ into sustainable employment.
Best wishes from Dan Howard
This is an end of year message for a year like no other and one that I want to use to see past the negative and really focus on the positives and the potential that is all around us. I keep retuning to feelings of immense pride. The education sector, in the face of some […]
How Covid has changed the way we communicate at work
Dan Howard explores how to develop key communication skills and supporting ‘generation Covid’ into sustainable employment.
Supporting learning with well-developed study skills
When we think about learning, we often only consider the end goal of what it is we need to learn. However, each new learning experience, whether that is changing school, transitioning to further or higher education, starting a new qualification or apprenticeship, or any other CPD training we might undertake throughout our careers, brings with it different challenges or barriers to learning which we must first overcome in order to achieve a successful outcome.
Sustainable futures starting with employability skills
Dan Howard explores supporting ‘generation Covid’ into sustainable employment by ensuring they have the transferable meta skills they need to be successful.
We cannot lose sight of the long-term unemployed
Dan Howard discusses the increase in unemployment rates across the UK why we must act now to support the long-term unemployed.
Employability must start with accessibility
As a fellow of the Institute of Employability Professionals, Dan Howard has contributed to the latest IEP Journal covering why accessibility must be central to employability efforts.
Putting the Government’s plan for jobs into action
With the furlough scheme coming to an end on 31st October, we may begin to see the truest picture yet of the economic fallout and the impact on jobs as a result of coronavirus and extended periods of lockdown. Although it has been shown that young people have been disproportionally affected by coronavirus related unemployment, […]
