Young Entrepreneurs
September 27th, 2018 by Angela Rees
Here are some photos from our successful YETI in the Valleys event. We met some brilliant and inspiring people.
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YETI in the Valleys
August 15th, 2018 by Angela Rees
The YETI project will hold its final multiplier event in Clwb y Bont, Pontypridd on 24th and 25th August. During the two afternoons there will be chance to learn more about the project and to talk to local business owners and organisations about the process, challenges and rewards of self-employment. If you are a business…
YETI in the Valleys
August 15th, 2018 by Angela Rees
The YETI project will hold its final multiplier event in Clwb y Bont, Pontypridd on 24th and 25th August. During the two afternoons there will be chance to learn more about the project and to talk to local business owners and organisations about the process, challenges and rewards of self-employment. If you are a business…
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Wales DigitalFest 2018
May 24th, 2018 by Angela Rees
Cardiff may be a small city but it certainly knows how to put on a good show. The beautiful Wales Millenium Centre in Cardiff Bay was jam-packed with exhibitors, speakers, workshops and discussions with attendees ranging from wannabe start-ups to big business moguls, politicians to street food vendors. Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies featured highly on the agenda, which…
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Wales DigitalFest 2018
May 24th, 2018 by Angela Rees
Cardiff may be a small city but it certainly knows how to put on a good show. The beautiful Wales Millenium Centre in Cardiff Bay was jam-packed with exhibitors, speakers, workshops and discussions with attendees ranging from wannabe start-ups to big business moguls, politicians to street food vendors. Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies featured highly on the agenda, which…
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Educate to Create
April 27th, 2018 by Angela Rees
This year, Bulgaria holds the presidency of the European Union, I was invited to Sofia to be a panel speaker at one of the associated conferences, Educate to Create. The conference was billed as “an opportunity to bring attention to the pressing need to raise digital skills and competence levels across Europe and to support…
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It all kicked off in the Principality
February 2nd, 2018 by Angela Rees
The Media in Action consortium met in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium at the end of January for our project kick off meeting. There was an air of excitement and a keenness to hit the ground running in this one year pilot project co-funded by DG Connect. Work has already started identifying existing good practices and competency…
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Empowering Public Employment Service Practitioners’ peer facilitation with peer coaching training
February 1st, 2018 by Angela Rees
The EmployID Peer Coaching and Evaluation teams had an article published this week in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring. In a changing world of work with high youth unemployment rates, an ageing society and flexible work force, practitioners in Public Employment Services need to cope with continually growing demands. In this paper…
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Presenting Media in Action to the European Media Literacy Expert Group
February 1st, 2018 by Angela Rees
On 14th December last year I woke up halfway up the tallest hotel room I’ve ever stayed in on a maisonette level double bed in Brussels. I got the highly efficient public transport to the edge of the city and found my way to the DG Connect building. I gave a presentation, experienced my first…
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Peer coaching, problem solving and support.
January 10th, 2018 by Angela Rees
EmployID Academy launches a free one week course introduction to peer coaching on Monday 15th January. Enrolment is open now at https://mooc.employid.eu/course/an-intro-to-coaching-and-peer-coaching/ Tutors Carmen, John, Pablo and I will be on hand throughout the week and joining you in the discussion forum. The materials provided will give you a short overview of coaching and peer coaching….
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Cyborg patented?
Forbes reports that Microsoft has obtained a patent for a “conversational chatbot of a specific person” created from images, recordings, participation in social networks, emails, letters, etc., coupled with the possible generation of a 2D or 3D model of the person.
Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute’s Week in Data newsletter
This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to highlight focal points – including faces. But, Twitter users discovered that, in practice, white faces were focused on, and black faces were cropped out. And, Twitter isn’t the only platform struggling with its algorithm – YouTube has also announced plans to bring back higher levels of human moderation for removing content, after its AI-centred approach resulted in over-censorship, with videos being removed at far higher rates than with human moderators.
Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary.
The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Better-off pupils are significantly more likely to go to university than their more disadvantaged peers. And the gap between the two groups – 18.8 percentage points – is the widest it’s been since 2006/07.
The latest statistics show that 26.3% of pupils eligible for FSMs went on to university in 2018/19, compared with 45.1% of those who did not receive free meals. Only 12.7% of white British males who were eligible for FSMs went to university by the age of 19. The progression rate has fallen slightly for the first time since 2011/12, according to the DfE analysis.
Quality Training
From Raconteur. A recent report by global learning consultancy Kineo examined the learning intentions of 8,000 employees across 13 different industries. It found a huge gap between the quality of training offered and the needs of employees. Of those surveyed, 85 per cent said they , with only 16 per cent of employees finding the learning programmes offered by their employers effective.
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