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Are you ready for the trends that will shape tomorrow?

Posted by: DCDC, Posted on: 19 October 2018 - Categories: Global Strategic Trends

‘Global Strategic Trends – The Future Starts Today’ was published on Monday 15 October by the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) thinktank, the Development, Concept and Doctrine Centre (DCDC). The document provides a strategic context for those involved in long-term policy, …

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What next for mental health and wellbeing?

Posted by: Professor Barbara J. Sahakian, Posted on: 23 October 2017 - Categories: Mental health and wellbeing
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How advances in brain science and artificial intelligence could transform our mental health and wellbeing.

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Women and lifelong learning: falling short of meritocracy

Posted by: Professor Tom Schuller, Posted on: 24 August 2017 - Categories: Skills
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...Community Learning Survey Report, 2013). Why should this be? First, women are more likely to be employed in the public sector, which tends to offer more in the way of...

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How can Britain produce economically valuable skills?

Posted by: Assistant Professor Lynn Gambin and Terence Hogarth, Posted on: 25 July 2017 - Categories: Skills

Britain has struggled to produce economically valuable skills for over 130 years. How can this be fixed?

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Will there be enough graduate jobs in the next 10 years?

Posted by: Professor Francis Green, Posted on: 18 July 2017 - Categories: Skills
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Especially since the surge in university and college enrolments around 1990, Britain's workforce has become very much more educated.

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Better workplaces mean better learning

Posted by: Professor Alan Felstead and Professor Lorna Unwin, Posted on: 13 June 2017 - Categories: Skills

Learning occurs in all workplaces as part of everyday activity. So why do some workplaces create more learning opportunities than others?

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If lifelong learning is so good, why don’t more adults join in?

Posted by: Professor Alan Tuckett OBE, Posted on: 21 March 2017 - Categories: Skills
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Learning is good for your health, your wealth, your civic engagement, and for your family’s future prospects. 

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