As we stated in Part 1, industry clusters are a helpful way of viewing a region’s sectors, because analysing 49 related groups is always going to be much simpler than trying to pick your way through 569 Standard Industry Classifications, most of which are unrelated. But once we have identified a particular cluster of […]
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Building a Better Local Economic Growth Strategy: Part 1 — Quickly Identify Growth Opportunities
For Local Authorities, building a successful strategy for local economic growth is essential. In fact, with central funding being phased out and councils up and down the country having to rely more on business rates than previously, growing existing sectors, as well as attracting new businesses, is now imperative. But how can you […]
Improving Your Employer Engagement Strategy: Part 3 — Target and Engage the Right Employers
Having identified growth industries to target (Part 1), and then looked at what occupations they employ (Part 2), the final step is to find out who the employers are, and what they are looking for, as this can help in opening the door for engagement. Ordinarily, identifying these things would be a painstaking business. However, […]
Improving Your Employer Engagement Strategy: Part 2 — Understand Which Occupations the Industries Employ
Being able to identify the growth industries in your region (as we demonstrated in Part 1) is a good place to start a more effective employer engagement strategy, since it can help you narrow down the sorts of industries that are likely to respond well to your approach. However, knowing that an industry is likely […]
Improving Your Employer Engagement Strategy: Part 1 — Identify Industry Needs in Your Region
Whether we’re talking about apprenticeships, upskilling, new T-Level work placements, or other partnership activities, employer engagement is one of the most important things that an education and training provider does. Yet very often, because establishing which employers to engage is difficult, the approach taken by many providers is not only time-consuming, it is perhaps […]
T-Levels: Employability in a Changing Economy – A New Report From Collab Group and Emsi
This piece first appeared on FE News and was written by Ian Pretty (Collab Group) and Andy Durman (Emsi). Our system of technical education is not working for employers or for learners. We have a system that is difficult to navigate and qualifications that do not train people in the skills that employers are […]
Case Study: West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges — A New Skills Service Bringing Better Collaboration and Alignment With Employers
The Skills Service West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges (WYCC), which operates on behalf of seven Joint Venture Colleges in West Yorkshire, recently launched a new Skills Service, which provides a model for the colleges to drive the kind of better alignment and collaboration that employers are calling for to increase workforce skills and influence […]
