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21 st January 2011 - City of Bristol College

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21 st January 2011 - City of Bristol College

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  1. The Role and Potential of FEC/HEI PartnershipsSeminar for College Governors and Senior Managers: HE Strategy for Colleges in a Changing EnvironmentHE In FECs Expert Programme in partnership with University of Plymouth CollegesMark StoneAssociate Dean, Teaching & Learning, University of Plymouth Colleges [UPC] 21st January 2011 - City of Bristol College

  2. Regional priorities / opportunities For South West: • Aerospace and Advanced Engineering • Hospitality • Creative Industries – especially digital media • Marine • Bio-medical and healthcare • ICT – especially semi-conductor design and wireless networks • Environmental technologies – especially renewable energy and waste • a portfolio response required across FE & HE + • with progression from wherever you start

  3. Shared challenges - some regional • Personal • Low aspirations post 16 • Little family experience of HE • Serious worries over debt • Strong desire to remain in own communities • HE seen as irrelevant to future employability • Location of provision • Employer-related • Business base primarily made up of SMEs • Limited SME support for HE day release

  4. The part-time challenge [FDF 2010]

  5. Partnerships evolution • Number of guises • Franchised programmes >> Co-disigned and delievered • Partnerships office / unit at HEI • HE office / unit at FEC • University HE in FE Faculty / FEC HE Faculty • What next? • Part time progression to level 6 • CPD in all its forms – at least five separate product lines • International students in HE in FE and international institutional partners

  6. How – HE in FE 2.0 • HE in FE articulated as core business for HEIs & FECs – more than widening participation • More clearly defined [distinctive] products, positioned in the market place including [entry, progression, follow up] - customer, not supply focus • Supported by new business models that take into consideration tripartite relationships with commercial partners • Cost effective and performance [metric] monitored e.g. retention • Sharing and dissemination linked to reputation

  7. How – HE in FE 2.0 • Brand building and brand sharing • Greater shared planning between strategic partners e.g. procurement / shared services • Shared risk and enhanced levels of collaboration e.g. procurement / shared services…. student records and staffing [Burnley College / UCLAN] • Sharing expertise aligned to USP • Understanding areas of tension / competition and areas of mutual interest / non competition • Academic communities across multiple institutions

  8. University role in changing landscape • Clarity of partnership offer including costs and benefits - supplier to and customer of FECs • Critical friend and good listener [IQER] • Provision of value added / economies of scale services e.g. Careers, Disability, Library and Students Union • Being an honest broker across a network of FEC partners • Provide a wider view with different HE focused connections • Build coalitions to bid and lobby - with HE in FE as competitive advantage

  9. More than structures…people, contacts and resources

  10. Strategic working • Formal – Academic Co-operation Agreement • (Unwritten) Core principles • Shared Planning & Strategy • Transparency and security in funding • Open communication and accessibility • Quality Assurance & Enhancement [IQER ownership] • Support and dialogue around shared aims • Collaboratively developed provision • Ways to work with new partners HE, FE, international and commercial

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