{"id":13300,"date":"2019-08-08T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=13300"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:36:55","slug":"a-new-postgraduate-programme-in-education-futures-at-the-edinburgh-futures-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=13300","title":{"rendered":"A new postgraduate programme in Education Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A big part of my working life for the next few years involves the development of a new postgraduate programme, to be part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute<\/a> (EFI). The programme is made up of a number of interlinked pathways, including one on Education Futures \u2013 this is the one I\u2019m leading on. The programme will be interdisciplinary, challenge-led, and have core data and creative skills courses as well as a range of\u00a0core and option courses for each pathway.<\/p>\n

Education Futures is particularly exciting (in my view!) because it will focus on some of the key ideas and topics informing learning, knowledge and education across the whole life course, with an emphasis on understanding the relationships between data and education. I want to see the pathway appealing to people from all sectors of education and learning, including schools, workplace learning, community education, and higher and further education. Things are still in the early stages of development, but by studying this pathway, we want students to be able to:<\/p>\n