Ever since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in April 2017, the apprenticeship landscape has been changing so quickly that many colleges have been left wondering how on earth they can begin to navigate the new reality. Here are just some of the challenges that have been created by the new system: 1. The […]
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Can Cities Outsmart the Robots? — A New Report From Centre for Cities Using Emsi Data
There are few hotter topics at the moment than the issue of automation. People are talking about it, people are writing about it, and many people are genuinely unsure about what it might mean for them and their future. But can we actually begin to quantify what things might look like, and where the […]
Introducing Course Vision — A New Online Tool to Help You Align Your Courses to Skills Demand
In our recent series — Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum — we demonstrated how Labour Market Insight (LMI) can be used by education providers to rise to the challenge of developing course provision that is both better aligned to the skills needs of employers, and which is likely to produce better employment outcomes […]
Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum: Step 3 — Identify Skills and Build a Business Case
This is the final part in this series (you can see Steps 1 and 2 here and here). In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the way employers view potential employees, with skills components, rather than simply qualifications or job titles, taking on a far more prominent place in hiring considerations. This […]
Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum: Step 2 — Explore Specific Course Areas
Having looked at curriculum as a whole in Step 1, identifying areas of oversupply, areas of undersupply, and even areas of high demand for which there is currently no provision, we can now show you how you can take a deeper dive into individual courses, in order to get a better sense of how they […]
Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum: Step 1 — Review Your Provision
How well does your current curriculum align with the local labour market? Or perhaps an even more pointed question, how much is your current curriculum actually serving the needs of learners and local employers in your area? For any provider looking to help its learners achieve better employment outcomes, and send out the kind of […]
Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum: Introduction
The endemic skills gap and low productivity across the nation have led to increasing calls from Government and industry leaders for Further Education providers to step up and ensure that they are providing the skills that employers really need. A number of solutions have been proposed, with perhaps the most obvious being the apprenticeship levy […]
