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Rebalancing accreditation: from assessment to validation

Blog

17 Nov 2022

Tom Kenyon

Digital badging can standardise the modern exam system invented by the RSA. Now we're championing innovation to validate the skills and capabilities these exams miss.
Cities of Learning: from pilot to impact

Blog

24 Mar 2021

Tom Kenyon

It is nearly six years since it was recommended to create a 'Cities of Learning' programme to establish a model designing and delivering inclusive lifelong learning, tailored to the needs of local people and economies. The RSA’s Tom Kenyon outlines the progress that has been made.
Piloting a new approach to lifelong learning

Blog

17 Mar 2021

Mark Hall

Millions of people around the world urgently need to develop new skills as we recover from the pandemic. The RSA, with Bayes Impact and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, aims to help people on this journey with a new digital careers coaching platform.
Reskilling Britain in a crisis

Blog

23 Oct 2020

Jake Jooshandeh

With unemployment set to rise and masses of jobs at risk, how we can reinvigorate adult learning?
What the UK can learn from global innovation in skills

Blog

23 May 2019

Atif Shafique

Lessons for technical and vocational education from Switzerland, Shanghai, Russia, and Singapore.
How everyone can learn and work in the city of the future

Blog

30 Apr 2019

Tim Riches

We need to reimagine the whole city as a learning campus, where education happens throughout a life-long learning journey.
If the UK wants a quality vocational education system, it should take inspiration from Switzerland

Blog

13 Feb 2019

Atif Shafique

The importance of flexibility, quality, & business leadership.
Cultural and educational opportunities for Welsh Language learners

Blog

12 Feb 2019

Barbara Thomas

A blog by Barbara Thomas FRSA on her Welsh language report in regards to the Wellbeing for Future Generations Act.
How lessons in a refugee camp taught an FRSA about alternative sanitary products

Blog

08 Nov 2018

Lauren Anders Brown

Lauren Anders Brown FRSA has made films about women in 37 countries, but it took visiting a refugee camp in Malawi to teach her about the positive environmental impact of using menstrual cups
Litter: pick it up pick it up pick it up!

Blog

05 Nov 2018

KMT FREEDOM TEACHER

n Solomon-Kawall FRSA is a community activist and artist, opening up his own garden to educate the community about environmental issues, waste reduction and particularly litter.