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Introducing our tutors: Joe Reed

24 June 2022

Joe Reed Teaching Associate, Creative Writing Why should people study your subject? If you want to write, as so many people do, you don't necessarily need to do so in an academic environment. However, it can really help! The courses we offer here are ICE give students a structure in which to complete their projects. We...

Bringing classics to life for all

23 June 2022

If you thought classics study was a relic of the past, think again. Inside ICE takes a closer look at ICE’s digitally delivered Undergraduate Certificate in Classical Studies and notes the subject’s deep resonance for the world we live in today. Digging into the past to make sense of the present ICE’s Undergraduate...

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Developing the next generation of entrepreneurs

23 June 2022

This autumn sees ICE launch a new Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship: Venture Creation. Why has the Institute designed a course aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs? Course creator, one-time Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year and O’Bleness Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio University, Prof. Luke Pittaway...

ICE archaeologist unearths WW2’s dark heritage

23 June 2022

In spring of this year, ICE’s Academic Director in Archaeology, Dr Gilly Carr, led a rare opportunity to excavate at a former Nazi concentration camp, taking two current ICE students along with her. Ravensbrück was the largest women’s concentration camp in the German Reich – of more than 140,000 people imprisoned there...

Lifelong Loan Entitlement: access to life-wide learning for all?

23 June 2022

The UK Government’s Skills and Post-16 Education Act was recently passed into law, promising to “level up and drive economic growth across the whole country.” Introduced among a host of new measures was a Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE) which, from 2025, will enable learners to “access a flexible loan for higher-level...

ICE’s edX portfolio goes from strength to strength

23 June 2022

Cory Saarinen, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at ICE, updates us on the continuing success – and growth – of the Institute’s flourishing collaboration with online learning platform, edX. Making Cambridge courses accessible to the world Our first foray onto the edX platform was a MicroMasters in Writing for...

New ICE Master’s is next step for established coaches

23 June 2022

The Institute of Continuing Education has unveiled a unique new Master of Studies in Coaching. From this coming academic year, experienced coaches looking to develop their expertise further will be able to fit higher-level study around their existing practice through a new two-year, part-time course. As well as offering...

ICE apprenticeships: supporting technical and vocational training and development

23 June 2022

Thanks in part to the Apprenticeship Levy – a fee paid by larger employers to fund worker training programmes – apprenticeships have become an increasingly important feature of career development in the UK. Reflecting this growth, ICE welcomes Dr Fergus McKay to lead its expanding portfolio of programmes for apprentices...

New book to mark 150 years of ICE

23 June 2022

2023 marked 150 years since the Local Lectures Syndicate started the official story of ICE. As part of the celebrations, Prof. Mark Freeman, UCL Historian and co-editor of the History of Education journal, published a new book documenting the last 50 years of the Institute. We spoke to Mark to find out more. It was 1873...

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Hear from our students: Nina Lewis, Summer Programmes

16 May 2022

Nina Lewis (38 at the time of interviewing) runs her own international radio station, Purple Rose Planet, in Michigan, USA. As well as being a full-time entrepreneur, she is also an author and a life coach. In her mid-30s, she decided to go back to college and was in the middle of studying for a Master of Liberal Arts at...

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Introducing our tutors: Joe Reed

Bringing classics to life for all

Developing the next generation of entrepreneurs

ICE archaeologist unearths WW2’s dark heritage

Lifelong Loan Entitlement: access to life-wide learning for all?

ICE’s edX portfolio goes from strength to strength

New ICE Master’s is next step for established coaches

ICE apprenticeships: supporting technical and vocational training and development

New book to mark 150 years of ICE

Hear from our students: Nina Lewis, Summer Programmes

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