Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
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How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
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Honours crossover

Today marks another crossover point:  for the first time more women than men received honours from the Queen.   This must in part be a result of   the educational crossovers that have seen women move steadily ahead in qualifications.    In other words,   it's some reflection of  how women are appearing more in significant positions at work.  Of course women have always figured in the voluntary sector section of the honours list, and received some measure of recognition there - even though at the low end of the honours satis list.  But  the human capital picture (qualifications and skills) is now looking more like the social capital picture…
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How to count training, and explain the results

There' a rather curious thing about our attitudes to training.  On the one hand, an endless mantra about a high-skill economy, and how we need to push up skills training.  On the other hand we seem not to care very much about how we should be measuring training so that we understand better what we do and don't know about it.  We tend to use very crude measures which tell us about the proportion of people participating over a given period, and not much else. How there's a very welcome contribution to the training debate, from Francis Green and colleagues at LLAKES,  which goes well beyond this.  It looks at…
Read More