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Connecting Education, Training and the World of Work Skills to meet Global Challenge Expert Meeting ILO Turin 15-17 March 2010 Professor Mike Campbell OBE Director of Research and Policy UK Commission for Employment and Skills 1 Towards a Global Training Strategy: The Policy Agenda Economic Performance Employment Learning Provision Skills Attainment Reduced Inequality The Workforce: Skills Available Accredited Informal (Qualification) (Training) Skills Investment Individual, Employer, Government Guidance – Match Mismatch Productivity The Workforce: Skills Required Economy – Business Strategy Management & Leadership level/structure Skills Utilisation • Shortages and skills gaps Industrial Policy • Unemployment and Inactivity • ‘Over-skilled’ / ‘Under-employed Other Drivers • Migration firms & people Supply Jobs Economic Policy 2 Demand PUMA 3 UPGRADING The Case for Skills Information, Advice, Counselling Responsive Provision: Focus on Outcomes Employer Engagement ‘Collective Measures’ 4 MATCHING Priorities and ‘Economically Valuable’ Skills Labour Market Intelligence, Insight and Foresight Public Employment Service Sector Councils 5 AMBITION Business Strategy - Management and Leadership - High Performance Workplaces Economic Policy - Economic Development Policy - Industrial Policy 6 Our vision for the future of employment and skills systems Public funding is prioritised towards basic, employability and lower level skills Government role is to empower learners, employers and providers Individuals are inspired , motivated and empowered And to leverage greater coinvestment from employers and individuals Learning and qualifications are shaped by sector and industry needs Employers collaborate in sectors to identify future skill needs Provider success is defined and measured in terms of outcomes Colleges, universities and providers are more trusted as valued assets There is an active industrial policy More ambitious world-leading businesses Three priorities – three workstreams Maximising individual motivation and opportunity for skills and sustainable employment by: 1. Raise individual aspiration, confidence and commitment to lifelong learning and skills through promotion, evidence, high quality provision and progression 2. Transforming the quality and availability of information, advice and guidance on career and learning opportunities, through high quality labour market intelligence and modern consumer technologies 3. Empowering all learners with real customer choice, support to access skills and learning when they need them, and the capacity to drive quality improvement in provision, through a system of full Personal Learning Accounts Increasing employer ambition, engagement and investment in skills by: 4. Enhancing the capacity of more UK firms to be high growth, high skill, high value added businesses through the stimulation of new industries, greater innovation and better leadership and management 5. Developing and deploying high quality labour market intelligence, enhanced by foresight on emerging strategic skills requirements, to inform industrial investment priorities, anticipate and better match the supply of skills to emerging demand, and thus enhance economic competitiveness 6. Stimulate greater employer networking, collaboration and collective action on skills, within sectors, labour markets, and/or supply chains, to create more high skill, high performance workplaces and increase UK competitive advantage Building a more strategic, agile and labour market led employment and skills system by: 7. Increasing the trust in, and authority to, learning providers, through the use of an outcome-based public quality and performance framework of course labelling and institutional scorecards, which empower customers and communities to drive provider responsiveness, quality and continuous improvement 8. Simplifying and prioritising public funding (through Personal Learning Accounts for individuals) towards developing economically valuable skills, increasing employer and individual co-investment and improving vfm 9. Creating a modular and flexible qualification system in which only employer recognised and accredited learning and qualifications that meet industry requirements are eligible to receive significant public funding PUMA • Create a ‘Virtuous Circle’: Integrate Training with Employment and Economic Development Policy • Establish Challenge and Vision • Change Behaviour – Information, Empowerment, Incentives and ‘Nudges’ 9 A workforce with poor skills not only makes their own lives poorer, it makes all of our lives poorer ….. and a highly skilled workforce will not only make their own lives richer, it will make all of our lives richer 10