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 […]
Further Education
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 […]
Case Study: Walsall College — Tackling the Challenge of Skills Shortages With Better Regional Insight
In the 2018 joint report from Emsi and City & Guilds – People Power: Does the UK economy have the skilled people it needs for the future? – 47% of the employers surveyed said they believed that the issue that is most likely to affect their productivity over the next three to five years […]
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 […]
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 […]
People Power: Does the UK Economy Have the Skilled People it Needs for the Future?
This piece first appeared on FE News. We have teamed up with City & Guilds to produce a report looking into the issue of current and projected skills gaps in the UK. The report – People Power: Does the UK economy have the skilled people it needs for the future? – combines a survey […]
Five Steps to Better Student Engagement: Step 5 — Fulfill Your Mission to Your Students
This is the final part of our series on Student Engagement. Click on the links to go to Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, or Step 4. Every college will have its own mission statement and a vision of how to achieve this. Yet if we were to look through the mission statements of […]
