Year: 2025

The European Commission’s agency for vocational education and training, Cedefop, is launching the first comprehensive survey of VET teachers across Europe. The European Vocational Teacher Survey (EVTS) will reach 14,000 teachers across 23 EU Member States, starting in October 2025, to gather crucial data about the challenges and experiences of those working in vocational education. Addressing Critical Workforce Challenges The survey comes at a time when Europe faces significant shortages of qualified VET teachers, particularly in STEM subjects, foreign languages, and informatics. These shortages are undermining efforts to meet the EU’s 2030 skills targets and hampering progress toward digital and […]

Leon Furze says that when we stop policing AI and start designing better assessments, student engagement increases and academic integrity concerns decreases. He claims these principles work whether students use AI or not. If you’re an educator struggling with AI policies, start with these fundamentals. Ask yourself: Is my assessment valid? Authentic? Transparent? Process-focused? Built on professional expertise? And he advocates 5 principles to bring us back to what matters about assessment:

The UK JISC have published the results of their annual digital experience insights survey for further education (vocational education and training) learners. The survey took place took place betweenOctober 2024 and April 2025 with 5,881 respondents from 16 organisations representing 6% of all further education providers in the UK.1 A separate analysis of the digital experience of learners in colleges in Wales was conducted in 2024/25. The mean number of responses was 368 per organisation and the median number of responses was 372 per although However, six of the 16 organisations contributed fewer than 100 responses. However, they continue, “the […]

There has always been an argument that although technology my destroy jobs, at the same time it creates new employment opportunities. So far there is little. evidence that Generative AI is creating new jobs, part from for a limited group of expert programmers and data scientist. But now NBC news has revealed a new source of work – to fix what Artificial Intelligence gets wrong. In an article entitled “Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy” they report how as companies struggle to figure out their approach to AI, recent data provided from freelance job platforms […]

In the late 1990s there was an upsurge of interest in the education community around research into knowledge development. Perhaps stimulated by political preoccupations around the emergence of the ‘knowledge society’ discussions focused on how knowledge was developed and how such knowledge development could be stimulated and supported. Although recently innovation has tended to be seen as dependent on individual invention, in the 19902 research it was more generally seen as a social process. Nonaka & Takeuchi (1995) developed the SECI model which describes four knowledge creation processes within organizations, involving the interplay of tacit and explicit knowledge. SECI includes […]

I’m just back from been having a couple of weeks holiday from the blog, escaping from Spanish heatwaves half way up a mountain in Galicia. But the time has come to get back to the keyboard. And I’ve quite a pile of posts waiting to be written Lets start with assessment. Assessment has not caused such a stir in vocational education and training as in school and higher education, mainly I guess because the general move towards competence and practice based assessment is less vulnerable to the likes of ChatGPT. But that doesn’t mean that vocational education and training policy […]

Watching this interview with Shafika Isaacs, Chief of Section for Technology and AI in Education at UNESCO earlier and one quote really stood out for me.

AI is fundamentally designed as an unethical ecosystem.

Which means it is imperative for …