Transcript Apprenticeships - Linking London

Linking London: City & Guilds -update
Geoff Holden November 2012
We believe in three clear principles for education
• Any young person’s programme of study, whether ‘academic’ or
vocational’, should provide for personal, career and educational progress on a
wide front
• We believe people need accurate and useful information on careers and
eductaional options, so that they can make decisions accordingly. 14-19
education is funded and provided for their sakes, not for the sake of the
institutions
• We have had over 20 years of micro-management and mounting
bureaucratic costs and it is time this changed
A lot going on…
KS 4 Reforms
• English Baccalaureate Certificates to replace GCSEs
• 5 Year franchises
• End test external asessment
• ‘Rigour’
• Revised performance tables
A level reforms
• End of modular approach
• Reduced resits- end of January assessment
• Increasing synoptic assessment, decreasing internal assessment
• Greater HE involvement in curriculum development
Diplomas out - Principal Learning in
• City & Guilds new PL in Engineering, Construction & Hair & Beauty
• R Acd Eng redevelopment into 4 new qualfications- available from 2014
DfE/BIS
•Consultation to identify the highest value vocational qualifications for 16 to 18
year olds
Bacc to the future?
International Baccalaureate
•Popular with private sector now increasing in maintained schools…inspiration
for Ebacc?
•Central to it is extended essay – an independent, self-directed
•Newest option is IB Career-related certificate…aims include to develop a
broad range of career-related competencies and prepare for effective
participation in an ever-changing world of work
Welsh Baccalaureate
•Aims to give gives broader experiences than traditional learning programmes,
developing transferable skills useful for higher education and employment.
English Baccalaureate
•Mr Gove’s flagship–a performance measure? perhaps a curriculum plan
•Awarded to pupils who score at least a C grade at GCSE in English, maths,
science, a foreign language and history or geography
•Research suggest teachers do not enter weak students for the qualification
•Criticism for excluding arts, RS and DT
A Bacc
??
Tech Bacc™
Delivery landscape
From
• Local authority comprehensives
• Grammar schools
To
• University Technical Colleges -24 approved so far
• Studio schools- 12 approved so far
• Academies -2546 so far (majority secondary) chains emerging
• Free schools-112 approved
• FE from age14
City & Guilds is fully committed to
• retaining and growing its 14-19 market in schools and
colleges
• supporting the emerging University Technical
Colleges (UTCs), Studio Schools and Technical
Academies
• re-developing and retaining Principal Learning in
selected areas to support those markets
• expanding our Higher Level provision
• developing Apprenticeship frameworks
• L3 Social Media and Digital Marketing Apprenticeship
framework –developed with Microsoft and CIW
(Certified Internet Web Professional)
Apprenticeships
Holt Review
• raise awareness of the benefits of apprenticeships; empower
• SMEs to get the best from their training providers
• simplify the ownership of, and responsibility for, the apprenticeships
programme and remove any barriers.
Richard Review
• ‘By Christmas’
• Longer term changes
• Greater employer involvement and ownership
Traineeships
combining a rigorous core of work preparation, work experience, Maths,
and english, with a great deal of flexibility around everything else
FE Guild
• Association of Colleges and the Association of Employment and
Learning Providers had won approval to “take forward” proposals
• a single body to set professional standards and codes of behaviour as
well as develop qualifications
• Implementation August 2013-LSIS future in doubt?
External developments
300,000
UNSUCCESSFUL HE
APPLICATIONS IN
2011
C
• TUITION FEES
• APPRENTICESHIPS – increased
focus on ‘higher level
apprenticeships’
• LABOUR MARKET CHANGES:
- 100% increase in those with
‘higher level skills’ between 2007 &
2017
- School leaver programmes, e.g.
Proctor & Gamble, KPMG, etc.
16.6% INCREASE IN
APPRENTICESHIP
STARTS LAST YEAR
£425M PUBLIC
FUNDING
SUPPORTS HE
LEARNERS IN FE
APPRENTICESHIPS
Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Government recognises their value and is investing £1.4bn
in Apprenticeships, which saw over 420,000 starts in 2010/2011
City & Guilds is committed to help drive growth in Apprenticeships
We are trusted by more employers and centres with 40% of apprentices working
towards a City & Guilds Apprenticeship
Our brand and employer recognition helps you to sell to employers and meet your
targets
is raising awareness of Apprenticeships and it is our commitment
to support you, learners and employers by ensuring ONE MILLION people start an
apprenticeship by the summer of 2013
HLA Developments
• City & Guilds and Higher Level Apprenticeships
• Desire to work closely with employers
• Co-creation with those delivering
• Progression for learners
• Good alternative to an academic pathway
• Adds to our offer in key areas
• Links to ILM and its membership
The City & Guilds offer
Design Principles
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Coherent and
consistent
qualification
titles across
sectors
Use of common
units, where
appropriate
Use of consistent unit
sizes: 10 / 15 / 20
credits
4
5
Graded assessment
Level 5 Work based
project linked to
apprenticeship
package
6
Consistent
publication offer
across suite of HLAs
The City & Guilds offer
We are working on Higher Level Apprenticeships in a number of areas. Those
launching between November 2012 and March 2013 are likely to include:
Qualification
Target Launch Date
9779-04 IT, Software, Web and Telecoms Professionals Higher Apprenticeship (Level 4) England
Live
9849-40 Leadership in Adult Social Care Higher Apprenticeship (Level 5) – England
Dec 12
9097-44 Business and Administration Higher Apprenticeship (Business and Professional
Administration) (Level 4) – England
Live
8789-01 ILM Level 5 Higher Apprenticeship in Management
Live
9865-64 Hospitality and Catering Higher Apprenticeship (Hospitality Management) (Level
4) - England
Live
9672-41: Advanced Manufacturing Higher Apprenticeship (Mechanical Manufacturing
Engineering) (Level 4) – England
Dec 12
9672-42: Level 4 Advanced Manufacturing Higher Apprenticeship (Electrical and
Electronic Engineering) (Level 4) – England
Jan 13
Level 4 Engineering (Aerospace)
Feb 13
Level 4 Building Services Engineering
Apr 13
Level 4 Assistant Practitioners
Apr 13
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Timescales For What Is Still To Come
Level 4 Aeronautical Engineering (within the 9672 Apprenticeship package)
• Qualification still at early stages – opportunity for consultant involvement
• Consultation on units and assessment – January/February 2013
• Operational go-live – March/April 2013
Level 4 Building Services Engineering
• Qualification being researched and scoped
• Opportunity for consultant and centre involvement to shape what is required
• Possible go live – April 2013
Level 4 Assistant Practitioners
• Qualification being researched and scoped with the SSC
• Opportunity for consultant and centre involvement, particularly with Assessment
• Possible go live – April 2013
ILM Level 4 Management
• NVQ agreed with the SSC
• ILM scoping the VRQ, planned for launch during 2013
Assessment Methodology
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Units assessed by assignments which allow for flexibility
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Exemplar assignments provided for mandatory units (some exceptions eg
Engineering and IT have units which are assessed by internally marked
short answer question papers)
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Exemplar assignments are complete examples which may be used as they
are or tailored/adapted to suit local needs
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Optional units are assessed by centre devised assignments
Funding environment
16-19
• New study programmes- 540glh
• Per capita not per qualification – national rate £3,900
• ‘Shadow’ budgets in place now
19-24
• L2/L3 entitlement may change
• Apprenticeship focus
• Co-funding
• English & maths
24+
• ‘Advanced learner loans’ L3+
• Run by SLC
• Same pay back terms as HE –only when pay exceed £21k
• Predicted decline in enrolements of 20-30%
Changes at the top
Liz Truss -DfE
• Assessment, qualifications, and curriculum reform
• Reducing bureaucracy
• Standards and Testing Agency
• Ofqual
Matthew Hancock BIS/DfE
• Apprenticeships
• FE and 16-19
• Careers
• Further education, adult skills, Skills Funding Agency, skills strategy,
lifelong learning, informal adult learning, apprenticeships, UKCES,
sector skills councils, workplace training reforms, qualifications reform
programme, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
DfE reform
• 1,000 jobs and 6 regional offices to go by 2015
How can vocational education provide progress to higher learning
and employment?
• crucial to improving England’s educational performance
• contributes towards our economic growth
• improves social mobilityand inspires ambition in young people
Schools and
colleges
Awarding
bodies
Learners
Employers
‘Young people should enter adulthood
with the confidence, ability and desire to
make their world a better place. The
route to achieving this is the curriculum
–
everything they learn at school,
college and beyond.’
City & Guilds-English & Maths
DEMAND FOR ‘REAL LIFE’ SKILLS
 Employers want learners to have the right skills needed to do the job
and do not have time to teach staff basic Maths and English – it is an
expectation
 Need qualifications enabling progression to GCSE A*- C or Level 2
Functional Skills
 Centres under increasing pressure to increase learner progression into
employment, so importance of workplace skills is crucial
 Young people want applicable, real life skills – they want to be able to
work out their finances and to communicate clearly to those around
them.
 54% of 16-18 year olds commented unprompted that Maths should be
more geared towards real life scenarios, according to City & Guilds
“Ways in to Work” Report 2012.
City & Guilds-Enabling qualifications
ENGLISH SKILLS AND MATHEMATICS SKILLS (3845)
1. A new suite of unitised English and Mathematics qualifications at 5 levels
2. A bank of 100 units from which to build qualifications that meet specific skills
needs
3. A range of qualification sizes to meet the needs of learners
 Award
 “Themed” Award focussing on a specific skill area e.g Reading,
Handling Data
 Certificate
4. Currently being piloted while awaiting Ofqual approval
5. Funded under SfA ‘innovation code’
City & Guilds-Enabling qualifications
WORKING ENGLISH AND WORKING MATHEMATICS (3844)
1. Two new qualifications in English and Mathematics developed at Entry
3 to Level 2 (Level 3 under consideration)
2. Summative, on-screen assessments with instant results – building on
recently developed e-assessment technology
3. Qualifications assess some of the essentials of English and
Mathematics e.g. spelling, punctuation, mental maths
4. Currently with Ofqual
Employability and Personal Development
• Our main qualification suite (7546) originally launched in
2008, but with more levels and a wider choice of units
(now over 330 in total) subsequently added.
• Covers Entry 2 to Level 2 (Level 3 via the Employment
and Personal Learning at Work suite – 7591)
• Suite completely overhauled in early 2012 to introduce
greater flexibility
• ‘Themed’ pathways – eg Preparing for Employment,
Community Involvement, Enterprise).
• Can be used in a wide range of contexts – eg across all
of their 16-18 provision and KS4, as well as part of our
‘Work Ready’ offer to the unemployed.
• Complements other products such as the new
Professional Recognition Awards and Graduate Skills.
Looking forward
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flexible, modular approach to courses
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allowing individuals to tailor their study around personal circumstances
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experience of work as an integral part of the course
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working with businesses to design courses that meet their needs
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more employer involvement and community engagement leads to more innovation
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collaborative ventures to secure progression and share risk
Key principles:
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distance/on line learning
integrate up to date technology into programme
flexible about mode of attendance
Learning of the future needs
Much more than qualifications
Curriculum philosophy
Integrated with technology
‘Seamless progression’
The Digital World