Event report: Friday News Round
The fifth Friday News Round of the academic year was held online on 24 March.
After a warm welcome from Andrew Jones, the Director of Linking London, and Jakub Kowalewski, Partnership Officer, we started off with a short quiz on recent events in the education sector.
We then updated attendees on the latest Linking London activities and resources, including our new Guide for Staff Supporting BTEC Learners Post-course. We also highlighted the Linking London brokerage service and the HE in London site. Our resources are available on the Partner Area.
Following from this, we offered some news headlines, including the Spring Budget, the new Science and Technology Framework, the OfS inquiry, and the growth of satellite university campuses in London.
We then provided an update on Halfon's strategy for further and higher education, as well as on plans to assign UCAS tariff points to apprenticeships. We outlined reasons why apprentices drop out from the scheme, and touched on 'returnerships' recently mentioned by the Chancellor. Next, we looked at T level-related developments, including roll-out delays, and headlines from the latest T level action plan. We also discussed T level student characteristics.
We summarised the main parts of the LLE bill (and its challenges), and the takeaways from the CEIAG Inquiry Committee Meeting.
We concluded the session with some thoughts on ChatGPT, and with the likely and the less likely future policy developments to look out for.
Feedback from attendees at our News Round events has been really positive:
- 'Great digest of what is happening in the world of education.' University colleague
- 'Extremely useful! Will be attending the next one!' University colleague
- 'Very informative.' College colleague
The next meeting will take place on 21 April 2023.
Slides and recording
View the slides and the recording from the day.
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