5 Reasons why you should be using an e-portfolio
An e-portfolio is a secure, digital version of traditional paper-based storage files. They allow learners to upload a range of evidence, including video, sound, or image files, throughout their qualification or apprenticeship. E-portfolios can easily be accessed anytime, anywhere with an internet connection by the learner, their tutor, assessor, manager, and internal quality assurer. Using […]
Making the UK employable: Plan for Jobs and Build Back Better
One really positive thing that has come out of the upheaval of the past 18 months is that it has got us talking! Talking about issues we’re facing, problems we need solving, and most importantly, ways in which we can work together to combat the issues either brought about or exacerbated by the pandemic.
Skills Work: Supporting DWP Restarts
When the new £12.9 billion Restart scheme was announced late last year as part of the Government’s Plan for Jobs, it was a welcome lifeline for those who have been significantly impacted by the pandemic. Looking to engage in the contract? We can give your bid the edge!
What Skills for Jobs means to Skills Forward
With the release of the recent ‘Skills for Jobs’ white paper, and National Apprenticeship Week last month, the spotlight is well and truly on technical education and lifelong learning.
So, what does this mean for Skills Forward?
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.
