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 […]
Further Education
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 […]
Five Steps to Better Student Engagement: Step 4 — Promote Your College
In Step 2, we demonstrated the importance of linking courses to careers, and then in Step 3 we showed the kind of insight that can be used to give potential students insight on the careers they’re interested in. The point of this is that it can help you promote your courses as stepping stones […]
Five Steps to Better Student Engagement: Step 3 — Give Learners Insight on Local Careers
In Step 1, we pointed out that because a college’s Core Product is not so much its courses or the qualifications they lead to, but rather where those courses and qualifications can lead those who do them, it makes sense to emphasise the link between courses and regional careers in promotional and marketing activities. […]
Which Jobs and Skills Are Employers in Our Region Struggling to Fill? Our New Job Postings Feature Can Help You Answer This.
Last year we introduced Job Postings Analytics (JPA) into our online data tool, Analyst, in order to give even more up-to-date insight on top of our existing Labour Market Insight (LMI). For our customers, this has given them the ability not only to delve into our structural data to better understand long-term demand and […]
Five Steps to Better Student Engagement: Step 2 — Link Your Courses to Careers
Having made the claim in Step 1 that young people go to college in order to increase their career prospects, and so colleges should concentrate more on marketing the link between their courses and careers, we anticipate the following objection: This sounds all very well, but how exactly are we supposed to accomplish this? […]
The Prison Education Framework: Why Providers Need to Understand the Skills Needs of the Prison Regions
With the long awaited Invitation to Tender for the Prison Education Framework (PEF) finally released, education and training providers looking to submit bids will be seeking to do all they can to make sure their bid stands out from those submitted by their competitors. There are of course many areas which will need to […]
Five Steps to Better Curriculum Alignment Using LMI — Step 5: Using Your Curriculum to Fulfil Your Mission
In Step 4, we showed how with the use of good, localised Labour Market Insight (LMI), you can identify gaps where your college is currently not meeting the needs of its labour market. But having identified these gaps, the question arises, what can you actually do with this insight? Don’t sit on the insight […]
Five Steps to Better Curriculum Alignment Using LMI — Step 4: Identifying Gaps in Your Provision
In our previous post, we demonstrated how a college can begin with its curriculum and audit it against local demand for related occupations. However, as we said in that piece, whilst this supply-driven approach provides a great starting point for curriculum alignment, it cannot ultimately produce the kind of demand-led curriculum that Ofsted is looking […]
Five Steps to Better Curriculum Alignment Using LMI — Step 3: Reviewing Your Courses Against Demand
You can see read the introduction to this series, along with Step 1 and Step 2 by clicking on the hyperlinks. There are two places a college can start when thinking about curriculum alignment. The first is to begin with the curriculum itself, auditing current courses to understand alignment to local employment demand. The second […]
