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Too Busy to Go to University?: Engaging Employed Learners

Too Busy to Go to University?: Engaging Employed Learners. Background. The Centre for Lifelong Learning - UoT Work-Based Studies Degree Summer University Negotiated Learning Framework. The Negotiated Learning Framework Project – Aims.

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Too Busy to Go to University?: Engaging Employed Learners

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  1. Too Busy to Go to University?: Engaging Employed Learners

  2. Background • The Centre for Lifelong Learning - UoT • Work-Based Studies Degree • Summer University • Negotiated Learning Framework

  3. The Negotiated Learning Framework Project – Aims • To engage with at least 79 local Small & Medium Enterprises (SME’s) • To offer HE level training to new employed learners • To enrol 282 of these new learners • To show evidence of CPD • To train 20 trainers

  4. Sectors • Construction • Contact Centres • Digital Media • Early Years • Engineering • Health & Social Care • Hospitality • Retail • Transport & Logistics • Voluntary & Community

  5. How? • Accredit appropriate existing in-company training • Write new programmes of learning • Use existing modules • or some combination of these three

  6. Accreditation of in-house training • R. Blackett Charlton Limited Skippers Lane Middlesbrough • Fabrication, installation and testing of pipe-work. • Supply of labour for offshore and marine industries • Line Management Development Programme – in existence • Part HE level with Health & Safety training accredited at FE level (NVQ level 2) with Redcar College

  7. Write New Programmes • Bells at Sainsbury’s, Tees Valley wide • Convenience & Retail company – (bought by Sainbury’s in 2004) • Written a new management training programme in partnership with the Training Manager at Bells, Teesside Business School and the project team • Consists of three 20 credit modules creating a 60 credit University Certificate in Advanced Professional Development (UCAPD) • 3rd cohort

  8. Using Existing Modules • Sage Accounting • Web Optimisation • Understanding Children’s Development • Introduction to Volunteering • Project Management • Mediation Skills • Effective English

  9. Combination of the Three ? • Newsquest, Darlington • Newspaper & media company - The Northern Echo • Created a year long Management Development Programme • a mixture of ‘off the shelf’ modules, accreditation of some current training & bespoke new modules written specifically for them. • E.G. ‘Supervisory Management’; ‘Coaching & Feedback’; ‘Dealing with Conflict’

  10. Blended Learning • Open & Distance Learning • Subsequent cohorts • VLE – interaction • Learning Through Work platform

  11. Staff • Academic? • Subject-specialists? • Salespeople?

  12. Evaluation • Project end date July 2008 • Beginning to evaluate its impact • Companies – questionnaire & telephone or face-to-face interview • Key companies asked for testimonial/report

  13. Development • Business 2 Business mentors • Ambassadors - from each named sector • ‘Spread the word’

  14. Financial Implications • Who pays? • Employer? • Employee? • The State?

  15. The Leitch Review • Financial focus – ‘economic competitiveness’ • Well-qualified workforce • Employer/demand-led

  16. Contact Details Dr Ruth Helyer Adult Access & Flexible Programmes Manager Centre for Lifelong Learning University of Teesside r.helyer@tees.ac.uk

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