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Mary Curnock Cook retweeted
In our latest blog, Darren Brookfield from @pearson
explains how current qualification reforms, workforce data, and collaboration with industry bodies are creating a major opportunity to redesign sport and physical activity education.
Read here:
aoc.co.uk/news-campaigns-par…
Mary Curnock Cook retweeted
.@MaryCurnockCook, Chair of the Skills Imperative 2035 Strategic Advisory Board, is now bringing the event to a close.
She has thanked her colleagues on the Board for their hard work and input throughout the 5-year Programme. #Skills2035
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Great @Lifelong_Ed panel at #Lab25 with @MaryCurnockCook, @AoCDavidH, Philip Augar, Andy Forbes and Malcolm Press (from @UniversitiesUK):
Mary Curnock Cook retweeted
The @guardian highlights the impact of scrapping AGQs: "Even the government’s own figures show a gap, with tens of thousands of students on the threatened courses, including some BTecs, potentially unsuited to newer alternatives". #ProtectStudentChoice
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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I think, if I worked at @StatsRegulation, I would be very angry by the way I was being played by the anti-university campaigner Paul Wiltshire: telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06…
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If you Spotify, my new record is out. It's on the link below and gives you the dubious pleasure of hearing me sing 6 songs I wrote. Please give it a listen!
Also available by searching for "Departures" by "Platform 22". Thanks! open.spotify.com/album/75I2F…
Another cracking report from @TheNFER Skills Imperative 2035 research (I chair the strategic advisory board for this work).
🆕 Research finds young people in England have worse socio-emotional skills than most of their peers in other countries that took part in #PISA2022.
Find out more from new #Skills2035 research 👇
🟣 Full story: bit.ly/4hZcMdg
🟣 Key findings: bit.ly/4igPkZb
ALT New research report - The Skills Imperative 2035: Investigating cross-country differences in young people’s skill development and identifying factors associated with high-performance
Mary Curnock Cook retweeted
“What may have felt like death by essay before, AI has merely finished off.” blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat…
Good to see the emphasis on Level 2 attainment as an engine of widening participation in HE in this excellent piece from @ImpetusUK @HEPI_news
bit.ly/4j557L4
When in doubt, read @smitajamdar - here providing a highly informed perspective on the @officestudents judgement on @SussexUni
bit.ly/3QR2e4E
I always enjoy @nickhillman's book reviews and this one is great in thinking about AI @HEPI_news
bit.ly/3FRghVu
Ten years after @HEPI_news last report on comparatively poor education outcomes for boys and men, very little has changed. My foreword suggests this is an unacceptable situation for both men and women
hepi.ac.uk/2025/03/20/half-a…
Mary Curnock Cook retweeted
This is a perfect encapsulation of how boys get ignored in education.
The @EduPolicyInst’s new report on educational disadvantage, out today, says girls are 4.5 months AHEAD of boys at age 16.
The policy recommendation? Focus on why girls are not even further ahead.
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📝GCSEs 0.5 grades lower across all subjects
📚A-Levels 1.5 grades lower in three best subjects
👨🎓Outnumbered 3:2 at University
👷♂️40% more NEET post-Covid
As @eddavies_ explains, boys are falling behind at every stage. Watch our #LostBoys launch tomorrow from 13:30 here on X📺
Are your HE assessments AI-integrated, AI-supported or AI-integrated? Some great learnings from a webinar I chaired and wrote up with Bess Brennan from Cadmus
@HEPI_news
bit.ly/41oFQoi
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Nottingham Trent vice-chancellor Edward Peck has been picked as the preferred candidate to be the next Office for Students chair. So barring anything very unusual, it's him. Someone with HE experience as permanent chair this time, then. Makes a change.
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NEW: The Education Maintenance Allowance, a weekly cash transfer to disadvantaged students aged 16-19, did not improve their long-run outcomes.
The EMA only provided around 40p of benefits to students for every £1 spent.
THREAD on our new @NuffieldFound-funded report:
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ALT Charts show the effect of the EMA on qualifications and annual earnings. Title states: "The Education Maintenance Allowance did not improve attainment or earnings for disadvantaged students."
Some really important findings in this report (I chair the strategic advisory board for the project) relating to the factors that promote and curtail skills development through various stages/ages in education 👇
The sixth working paper from our 'Skills Imperative 2035' research programme, funded by the @NuffieldFound, will be published tomorrow. This will investigate skills development during childhood.
Keep a look out for updates on our website and social media channels.
#Skills2035
ALT Group of young people being spoken to by their plumbing teacher. The image also highlights tomorrow's publication of the latest working paper from the 'Skills Imperative 2035' research programme, led by NFER and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.