Should I stay or should I go? On the #Ed_Space blog today David Powell considers the sustainability and ethics of academic travel in the light of #ClimateChange bit.ly/Ed-Sp118 #AcademicChatter

What role will the #CollegeoftheFuture play in ten years' time across the UK? Here's what the respondents to our consultation said. We still want to hear from you as we move towards drafting recommendations. Share your thoughts & find out more here: collegecommission.co.uk

This proposed post-16 GCSE Maths from MEI has the potential to improve motivation and achievement in post-16 maths. I do hope Department for Education will give it serious consideration. Association of Colleges (AoC)

Today is the International #EducationDay! 🥳 We celebrate the joy of learning, its personal and societal impact, as well as the relevance of lifelong and lifewide learning to modern societies! 🌍📚

''500 years ago, 'reading' meant reading out loud in company - nowadays we think of reading as something done silently and alone'': FE News podcast by my colleague Sam Duncan on her AHRC research RABiT fenews.co.uk/fevoices/224-p….

Teach Too advocates a two-way street: a genuine collaboration between #FE practitioners and #employers. Follow the link to learn more about our national dissemination event in London on 26 February. ⬇️ bit.ly/2Rd2c9f

Looking forward to this: UCL Institute of Education led stages 1 and 2 of #TeachToo, seems like an age ago, with 40 college partners around England. See our videos at tvet.excellencegateway.org.uk/teach-too-0.

No-one Left Behind: the future for adult basic skills rapal.org.uk/journal/ Learning and Work Institute UCL14+EduWork NATECLA National Centre UCU Gwyneth Allatt @ginagarb Tara Furlong Stephen Evans Alex Stevenson Galway and Roscommon ETB National Numeracy Great Learning @TRT_Tricia Sam Duncan Naeema Hann Dr Nafisah Graham-Brown Kat Goodacre (She/Her)

Important contribution on need to rebuild part-time #adulteducation Higher Education Policy Institute Nick Hillman @AlanTuckett Jonathan Michie @cillaross5 @nigelwingrove Melissa Benn Dr Melissa Highton Lord Karan Bilimoria @ShearerWest Dr Todd Landman Simon Parkinson John Field 🌻 hepi.ac.uk/2020/02/06/unh…

A system designed for part-timers will also work well for full-timers. Doesn't work the other way round UCL Institute of Education UCL14+EduWork UCL Centre for EngEd

Our FE Colleges are incredibly important to our communities as agents of cultural and economic change. Put them back under the stewardship of local authorities.

Participation in learning depends invisibly on networks of community facilities & amenities which people use to support childcare, social interaction, and income-generation. These networks are much more fragile/inaccessible than in the past: many of them rely on public funding

Also looking forward to this event Dan Shercliff #adulted, see you there! UCL Institute of Education Jay Derrick

In combating pandemics, more can be gained by changing citizens’ behaviours than by relying solely on the medical route. Read the International Review of Education article to learn about the pivotal role of adult learning and #education during #COVID19👉🏻 on.unesco.org/37XMc1y

Great piece from Julian Gravatt looking ahead to the new term after the craziness of the last few weeks tes.com/news/colleges-…

Government to U-turn on masks in colleges ow.ly/jnLg30r6bAI | FE Week

And the 1.4 MILLION adults. Colleges leading the way for the #SkillsLedRecovery #loveourcolleges

Join us 3rd Dec to launch the new book Seeing the World through Children’s Eyes - edited by Jayne White from RMIT University with chapters by @LomaxHelen Nicola Firth Professor Dawn Mannay Dr Amie Hodges and more bit.ly/38VufDd You can win a FREE copy @BrillPublishing

Colleges are ideally placed to #BuildBackBetter by getting adults retrained, into work & out of poverty. To do this the Chancellor needs to increase funding rates for adults tomorrow, to give equity with the 16-19 funding. Read Association of Colleges (AoC)'s report here: aoc.co.uk/news/governmen…

The evidence based public policy proposals following the G20 Summit in Saudi Arabia from @T20Solutions resonate with much of the work I'm doing in the UK with Evolve: A Social Impact Company & Evolve Education Thanks to Paul Grainger UCL14+EduWork & FE News for this excellent summary fenews.co.uk/featured-artic…