NEVER STOP LEARNING

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Build a bulletproof career

YOU

KNOW

JON

SNOW!

NOTHING,

WHEN YOU PLAY THE GAME OF THRONES YOU WIN OR

YOU DIELifelong Learning through the idiom of Westeros

LEARNING IS GREAT!

That is the way society frames the first two decades of a person’s life!

of college graduates will never read an academic text again42%

The percentage of European adults who are engaged in life long learning is:

10%Source:

professionalacademy.com

GRAND MAESTER PYCELLE

Probably has not passed an OFSTED Inspection

SO WHAT IS LIFELONG LEARNING AND WHY DOES IT STOP? It is the process of acquiring new knowledge, skills and competencies in our lives

Learn

Get a Job

Start a family

Stay in the Job

Get Traine

d

Get a Job

KING ROBERT BARATHEON

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Really should have taken a course in effective parenting

THE POST DIGITAL AGE

The Digital Age has ended – it ended with the iPhone, 3G & the Cloud These technologies have shifted the landscape beyond recognition When organisations are Digital by Default their behaviour is more agile Their flexibility is improved and they can disrupt competitors not embracing the future

WE BUILD BARRIERS TO LEARNING

Time! I’m too busy! My job takes up too much time…

Money! Learning costs so

much! I don’t want a MOUNTAIN of student debt…

Information! I don’t know where to start or what to study…

Location! I don’t want to go back to school…

NED STARK

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An Open University Degree in PPE may have enhanced his career prospects

HOW TO BE A LIFELONG LEARNER

Change Your Idea of Learning

Establish Goals

Ask Questio

ns

Find a group

Practice & Teach

what you

learn

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PRINCE VISERYS TARGARYEN

Would have benefited from studying Dothraki as a foreign language

THE CITY VS. TECH CITY

Tech City driving start-ups jobs boom with web developers ‘like gold dust’Evening Standard Headline – 10th Oct 2013

PM unveils Tech City transformationEvening Standard Headline – 12th Dec 2012

The new head of Tech City UK said ‘the time is now’ for Britain to cement its status as a global player in the digital technology and entrepreneurial industries

Gerard Grech in interview - 17th March 2014

LADY LYSA ARRYNPerhaps a crash course with the British Parachuting Organisation?

THE UK IS FALLING BEHIND

Lifelong education is not the norm - our global competitors are outperforming us

Of UK nationals hold a masters level degree or above7%

The percentage of US adults who hold a masters level degree or above is

15%Source: ONS & New York

Times

PRINCE OBERYN MARTELL

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A Law Conversion Course may have been better for his health

LEARNING BRINGS CAREER BENEFITS There is always something that we can learn that will improve the way we work

You are not alone – find co-workers & friends who want to learnOrganise!

The Tech Community is open standards based and often open source, learn, benefit and collaborate Share!

Why are you, your organisation and your friends doing things in that way?Question!

KING JOFFREY BARATHEON

Would have benefited from ILM certification and membership to ancestry.com

HELP THOSE AROUND YOU

The most amazing thing has happened - we are in an interconnected digital world

IT IS NEVER TO LATE!

YOU

And I am OK with thatKN

OWJON

SNOW!

NOTHING,

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Game of Thrones (or a Song of Ice and Fire) is awesome – The books are by George R.R Martin, the TV Series by HBO. Images from the TV series used with love, adoration and the UK’s far less litigious fair use copyright laws on Parody