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What is effective practice in pedagogy and curriculum design in technical education, apprenticeships and adult training? Where are the barriers to delivery of high-quality courses, and how might these be overcome?

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Our goal is to increase productivity and growth by bringing education and business closer together and improving the quality of our skills programme, so that we meet current and future business skills needs.

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Related UKRI funded projects

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    The HIVE-PED Research Seminar Series: Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy in England The proposed HIVE-PED research seminars series will map out the research territory, report research findings, facilitate debate,...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on higher vocational education and pedagogy in England, addressing effective practices and barriers in technical education and apprenticeships.

  • SD - APT: Scalable Delivery of Applied PEMD Training

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    Funded by: ISCF

    Why might this be relevant?

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  • Supporting the Industrial Strategy

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    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the development of skills, strengths and weaknesses in the education system, and how to incentivize training, which is relevant to improving the quality of skills programs.

  • University of Glasgow and Multiverse Group Limited 23_24 R6

    To develop an outstanding apprenticeship curriculum that incorporates digital and AI technologies to reach a wider range of learners with high-quality outcomes....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • University Technical Colleges - driving growth across the whole country and cultivating world-leading sectors?

    Evaluating school effectiveness is challenging, because parents can choose where to send their children to school. This causes a problem for researchers, because those choices are unlikely to be random. This means it is ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project evaluates the effectiveness of University Technical Colleges in driving growth and cultivating world-leading sectors, which is partially relevant to the question on effective practice in technical education and apprenticeships.