There’s a strange habit in education: we keep trying to fix a twenty-first-century problem with a twentieth-century workflow.
We write long strategies about lifelong learning, digital skills, employer partnerships, modular study, technical excellence, flexible courses, and getting young people into good jobs. All great ideas. But behind the scenes, the same thing always trips people up:
Creating the actual learning.
You can’t deliver flexible learning with inflexible tools.
You can’t deliver modular courses with monolithic content.
You can’t reduce teacher workload by asking people to do even more work.
The government’s new skills plan says all the right things:
• Lifelong, modular learning
• Short courses aligned to real jobs
• Better digital and AI skills
• Clearer pathways from school to work
• Support for NEET learners
• More employer-led training
• Upskilling everyone, not just a few
But none of this sticks unless we fix the part nobody talks about: the creation of learning itself.
Because if it takes three weeks to build a course, the future they’re describing never arrives.
The bottleneck nobody mentions
In schools, FE colleges, universities and employer training teams, content creation is always the blocker. It’s slow. It’s manual. And it’s stuck in a world of templates, PDFs and PowerPoints.
Modular learning? Sounds great—until you realise someone has to build all those modules.
Short courses for adults? Perfect—until you remember most teams don’t have the capacity.
AI skills for every learner? Necessary—until you see how long it takes to create one lesson, never mind fifty.
If the new national skills system is a high-speed rail line, content creation is the old railway crossing holding everything up.
Learning needs a different workflow
Great platforms don’t solve problems by adding layers—they solve them by removing friction.
This is where AI isn’t hype, but hygiene.
The future learning system needs tools that let a teacher, lecturer or employer turn an idea into something useful in seconds, not weeks. A page, a quiz, a video, an illustration, a learning path. Done.
The future system requires the ability to build lots of content, quickly, because the demands of the labour market are not slowing down. AI literacy today. Construction tomorrow. Clean energy next year. Defence, cybersecurity, health, engineering—constant shift.
In this new world, the ability to generate learning fast becomes a national capability.
This is why we built Learner Journey the way we did.
From idea to learning page in seconds
Learner Journey isn’t trying to reinvent learning. It’s trying to reinvent the workflow.
Prompt → Page
Prompt → Quiz
Prompt → Video
Prompt → Learning Path
Not someday. Not with a team of designers.
Now. In seconds.
Teachers can finally build something without burning out.
Training managers can finally iterate instead of waiting.
Learners get learning that is current, contextual and aligned to emerging skills—not whatever was written three years ago.
This is what modular learning actually requires: modular creation.
The skills system is becoming modular. The tools need to be too.
The government is introducing:
• V Levels to replace the messy patchwork of vocational qualifications
• Technical Excellence Colleges to specialise in priority sectors
• A Lifelong Learning Entitlement for flexible, stackable study
• Sector skills packages for digital, AI, engineering, construction and defence
• Local Skills Improvement Plans driven by employer demand
• Youth Guarantee preventing young people from falling through cracks
• Apprenticeship units funded through the new Growth and Skills Levy
This isn’t random. It’s a sign of a system shifting from content-first learning to skills-first learning.
But skills-first only works if teams can build, adapt and update learning continuously. The status quo won’t get us there. Not with current workloads. Not with current resources. Not with current tools.
The system needs a faster way to build learning. A way that matches the pace of change.
We don’t need more tools. We need better ones.
The education sector has spent two decades collecting tools the way people collect gym memberships: optimistically.
But most tools add complexity.
Most tools add workload.
Most tools assume the hard part—creating the learning—is someone else’s problem.
Learner Journey flips the assumption. We treat the creation of learning as the main product, not a side feature.
When you reduce friction, people create more.
When you make creation fast, people iterate more.
When you make learning modular, people reassemble it into paths that make sense.
And suddenly everything the skills plan talks about becomes possible.
The future isn’t big courses. The future is small pages.
Small pages you can assemble.
Small pages you can update.
Small pages you can personalise.
Small pages learners can actually finish.
This is how you respond to a world where job roles shift every 18 months, and where digital and AI literacy are no longer optional.
It’s also how you support the people who have been left behind—NEET learners, adults with low confidence, learners with SEND—who don’t engage with big, overwhelming chunks of content but do respond to bitesize, guided progress.
Small pages build big futures.
The real shift in skills is a shift in speed
Governments can write white papers.
Universities can write strategies.
Colleges can create pathways.
Employers can fund training.
But unless the people on the ground can build learning at the speed the system demands, we stay stuck in the old world.
Future learning will not be built top-down.
It will be built page-by-page, path-by-path, by the people closest to the learner.
The only question is whether the tools they use will slow them down or speed them up.
Learner Journey is designed for speed.
Because when learning moves faster, people do too.
