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Train to Gain HE: Meeting Employers’ Higher Level Skills Needs

Train to Gain HE: Meeting Employers’ Higher Level Skills Needs. Helen Pickering Executive Director Universities for the North East 17 th April 2007. Session focus. Provide an overview of the role and contribution of Train to Gain HE in the North East

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Train to Gain HE: Meeting Employers’ Higher Level Skills Needs

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  1. Train to Gain HE:Meeting Employers’ Higher Level Skills Needs Helen Pickering Executive Director Universities for the North East 17th April 2007

  2. Session focus • Provide an overview of the role and contribution of Train to Gain HE in the North East • Highlight the key activities of Train to Gain HE, particularly in relation to employer engagement • Explore how different mechanisms and levers can more effectively support employer engagement activities

  3. Region’s aspirations for Train to Gain HE “To improve the North East’s competitiveness and productivity… by strengthening the demand-led approach to meeting the region’s higher level skills needs”

  4. Region’s outcomes for Train to Gain HE • Increased (regional) employer engagement in higher level skills development • Workforce development at a higher level is seen as strategically important both by HE institutions and the region • The HE sector is well integrated into the regional skills infrastructure • The HE system will have achieved a step change towards delivering more responsive, flexible provision

  5. Partners • Cleveland College of Art & Design • University of Durham • Newcastle College • Newcastle University • New College Durham • Northumbria University • Open University in the North • University of Sunderland • University of Teesside

  6. Key activities • Regional skills infrastructure integration • Building employer gateways into higher education • Programme development funding • HE staff development • Broker development

  7. Regional skills infrastructure integration • Triangulation of HEFCE funded regional initiatives • Aimhigher, fdf, NEHSN and Train to Gain HE • Skills North East (RSP) • HE/FE/HEFCE representation on Regional Skills Partnership • New HE Steering Group provides: • Advice on issues relating to HE • A sounding board on issues of integration • One NorthEast • Key sectors approach to the development of HE for the NE workforce • Process managed by Unis4ne with partners including FE

  8. Employer gateways to higher education • Business Link North East • Region wide, independent business brokerage service • Operates the Train to Gain skills brokerage • Business diagnostic process refers to all providers • Regional HE skills gateway (Unis4ne) • Strategic business/sector development • For brokers, employers and their representative bodies, SSCs, TUs, other intermediaries and regional agencies • Additional HEFCE resource for non-partner FECs

  9. Employer gateways to higher education (cont.) • HEI/FEC skills gateways • Employer enquiry handling • Academic expertise identification/liaison • Business development/market building • Channel for responsive ‘solution’ development

  10. Programme development funding • Funding for Level 4+ earmarked for each HE partner institution (£850k total) • FECs eligible, accessed through partnership/franchise arrangements • Additional £500k from RDA for development of responsive, accredited/non-accredited, short course provision

  11. HE staff development • Programme under development • For skills business gateway, academic and other support staff • Wider staff development programme co-ordinated by HE Academy • Involves the region’s institutions (e.g. in PVC Special Interest Group, practitioner network) • Benefit to HE and HE in FE providers primarily

  12. Broker development • National broker training programme designed by Centre for Enterprise (LSC funded) • HE module under development • Promote business benefits of higher level skills • Aware of HE offer • Broker appropriate provision • Understand progression routes • Pilot HE module in NE region

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