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Linking London.
Xmas Debate.
Policy Picture
Dec 2012
The 12 Days of Christmas
12. Growth Plan
11. Quangos
10. Richard recommendations
9. New Challenges/New Chances
8. Core Cities
7. Baccs
6. Key chapter in Heseltine
5. Apprenticeship Reports
4. Skills priorities
3. m learners
2. Fiscal targets
1. Single pot
How’s it looking out there?
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Coalition moving into second half, new tone set in Autumn Conference
speeches, aspiration nation v one nation
Reshuffle over, main players in place for build up to election, narrative
emerging, renewal of marriage vows coming
Economy still key factor, Coalition sticking with Plan A, Opposition with 5point alternative
Economic forecasts remaining cautious, UK ‘consolidation’ rolling on to
2017/18
Growth flat, inflation up and down, unemployment down,
underemployment up
Rolling growth plan in place, subject to various outriders: industry plan
(Sept,) economic plan (Oct,) apprenticeship plan (Nov,) budget plan (Dec)
Education and skills agenda built around the 12 elements in the Growth
Plan: apprenticeship developments; Eng/maths; STEM; youth
employment; qualification reform; destination data; employer ownership
But, 4 key issues: funding; quality; qualification reform; system reform
1. Funding
Four areas
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Messages from the Autumn Statement
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Skills investment 2013/14
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Loans
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16-19
Messages from the Autumn Statement (1)
General
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Key word: ’healing’
Most used word: ‘fair’
Main message: ‘it’s a hard road but we’re getting there’
Meaning of main message: stick with a) us and b) Plan A
Sub text: strivers v skivers
Rewarded: Michael Gove
Recognised: Michael Heseltine
Surprised: FE sector (pleasantly)
Some important numbers
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Growth, slower than forecast: -0.1% (2012,) 1.2% (2013,) 2% (2014,) 2.3% (2015)
Jobs: better than forecast: unemployment to peak at 8.3% in late 2013
Total budget: £745bn
Dept spending: cut by 1% (2013,) 2% (2014) but met through efficiencies
Pay: 1% rise, though performance linked for school teachers
Welfare: 1% pa rise for next three years
80:20: balance maintained
Messages from the Autumn Statement (2)
Specific
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Schools
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£980m up to 2015 for new free schools and academies
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New pay/performance structure possibly from 2013
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School budgets remain protected
FE/Skills
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£270m for capital investment
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Extra £90m for EOPs
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£350m for RGF
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£6m match funding for development of digital content skills
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Movement towards a single pot by April 2015
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£250,000 +£10m for individual LEPs to enable creation of local skill priority plans
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LEP local skill plans by July 2013, employment measure data/KIS by end of 2013
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Endorsement of Heseltine model
HE/science
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£600m for RCs and R and D
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Updated Life Science Strategy
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£120m for Adv Manufacturing
The Heseltine effect (1)
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Landmark Report. Commissioned March 2012, published Oct 2012,
incorporated into Autumn Statement Dec 2012, formal response spring
2013
Remit: what do we need to do to invigorate growth?
89 recommendations, 14 for education and skills
Key messages: need for a clearer national focus, simpler funding
channels, demand through local drivers, more responsive education and
skills system
Key players:
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A new National Growth Council (chaired by PM, set overall strategy)
Gov Depts (shared responsibility for aspects of growth strategy)
LEPs (take a lead at a local level for setting local priorities)
Chambers of Commerce (work with LEPs building local support)
Economic sectors (work with Depts on delivery)
Regulators (ensure measurement and recognition of economic impact)
Schools, FE, HE (provide skills pipeline)
Key mechanism: single funding pot
The Heseltine effect (2)
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Schools:
– Raise standards through improvement strategy, LA leadership, Ofsted RDs
– Improve employability of school leavers through focus on Eng/maths, access to
work exp, greater business engagement, stronger destination data
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FE
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Make skill system more responsive to local needs using EOPs, ESBs, City Deals
Devolve 19+ skills budget and 16+ apprenticeship budget through to single pot
Ensure vocational and training provision agreed with LEPs
Use single pot to support local NEET and careers activity
HE
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Support for KIS and industry kite marking
Use Industry Councils to ensure courses match employer needs
Make greater use of employer student sponsorship
Review approach to visa arrangements
Skills Funding Settlement 2013/14
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Dept resource reductions to be managed through efficiencies
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Total T/L budget of £3.2bn for 2012/13, £3.1bn for 2013/14, £3.2bn for
2014/5
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Providers can bid into EOP funding which rises to £340m for 2015/16
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Increase in rate for Functional English and maths endorsed, details Jan
2013, distance-travelled funding potentially from 2014/15
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£129m set aside for loans in 2013/14 rising to £398m in 2014/15
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£764m for adult apprenticeships in 2013/14 rising to £770m in 2014/15
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Review of QCF including review of NOS
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£550m over 2 yrs for capital investment
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Detailed 2015/16 spending plans to follow a review in the first half of 2013
2. Quality
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Some concerns evident in latest Ofsted report
Some figures:
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81% success rate @19+, 78% for apprenticeships
1.5m learners with ‘not yet good’ providers
56% of overall good or outstanding
33% of providers satisfactory (35% last year,) 51% good (same as last year,) 13%
outstanding (12% last year,) 3% inadequate (2% last year)
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Overall quality of provision
Poor T/L
Lack of effective leadership, governance and challenge
Some apprenticeship provision
English and maths success rates
3. Qualification reform
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March of the Baccs
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Changes at 16-19
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English and maths
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Apprenticeships
3. March of the Baccs
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EBCs
– Primarily aimed at 16 yr olds, long-term GCSE replacement
– Largely knowledge based, core academic subjects
– Offered through tendered exam process
ABacc
– Possible IB variant to complement A level reforms
– Incorporating ‘contrasting’ subject, dissertation, community activity
Tech Bacc (1)
– Labour alternative for 14-19
– Conditional on L2 Eng/maths, an accredited L3 qual, ‘quality’ work experience
– Builds on Adonis thinking, informed through Husbands’ Review
Tech Bacc (2)
– Government adoption at 16-19
– To include quals from new approved KS5 list, maths, extended project
Baker Bacc
– Ken Baker model to support UTCs, available at 16 and 18
– At 16, Eng, maths, science + a tech qual, work exp, IT and employability skills
– At 18, 2 A levels in sciences and technical subjects, 2 approved tech quals
Not forgetting
– International Bacc, Welsh Bacc, Birmingham Bacc, Mod Bacc and other variants
3. English and maths
Current position
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Adoption of L2 benchmark for all programmes (2012)
Poor success rates highlighted in Ofsted report (2012)
Additional funding announced (2012)
Richard Review propose L2 as a condition of apprenticeship success
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Launch of National Numeracy Challenge (spring 2013)
Report on distance travelled funding pilot (June 2013)
Funding conditionality introduced at 16-19 (Sept 2013)
3. System change. FE
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Current position
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Key issues
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Launch of initial Skills and Investment Strategy (Dec 2010)
New Challenges/New Chances reform programme (2011-2015
Introduction of Innovation Code (autumn 2011)
Emergence of Gazelle Group (spring 2012)
Final Lingfield Report (Oct 2012)
Funding settlement for 2013/14 (Dec 2012)
Recruitment of 14-16 yr olds announced (Dec 2012)
4 yr budget reduction; sweeping changes to 16-19, adult skills, ESOL and
community provision; changes to 14-19 and HE alignments; emphasis on quality
provision; employer ownership; new forms of governance
What to look out for
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Reports from the CAVTL (Dec 2012, March 2013)
Consultation on Guild and chartered status (Jan 2013)
Consultation on perf table criteria for 16-19 VQs (2012/13)
Application of common performance measures (2013)
Implementation of new 16-19 PoS and funding system (Sept 2013)
Recruitment of 14+ learners (Sept 2013)
Implementation of new streamlined funding system and 24+ loans (Sept 2013)
Alignment with LEP skills priorities (2013)
3. System change. HE
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Current position
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Key issues
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Government Response to White Paper outlines future direction (June 2012)
First intake under new fee system (Sept 2012)
Maximum fee level remaining for 2013/14, maintenance grants uprated in line
with inflation (April 2012)
New institutional fee levels for 2013/14 signed off by OFFA (July 2012)
Tariff policy liberalised to ABB and 5,000 added to margin places for 2013 entry
Introduction of KIS, NSP, Unistats (Sept 2012)
Approval of university title for 10 new colleges (Nov 2012)
So-called ‘squeezed middle;’ growing debt burden; potential lifting of the cap;
impact on recruitment; emergence of high – table; nature of regulation; global
market; widening participation; HEPI analysis of fee regime
What to look out for
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UCAS milestone data (Jan 2013)
Interim WP Report (Jan 2013)
Confirmation of 2013/14 funding settlement (Jan 2013)
Adoption of HEAR (2012/13)
Development of new QA system (2013)
Impact Reports from HEFCE and Independent Commission (2013)