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Collaborative Training Centre

Collaborative Training Centre. Dr Mark Jones m.p.jones@brighton.ac.uk. Collaborative Training Centre. Working in partnership with Business Tangible Deliverables Range of ‘Products’ - risk v cost Bureaucracy. Product Range. Industrial Placements Continuing Professional Development

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Collaborative Training Centre

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  1. Collaborative Training Centre Dr Mark Jones m.p.jones@brighton.ac.uk

  2. Collaborative Training Centre • Working in partnership with Business • Tangible Deliverables • Range of ‘Products’ - risk v cost • Bureaucracy

  3. Product Range • Industrial Placements • Continuing Professional Development • Work Based Qualifications • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

  4. The Products • Industrial Placements • Range of disciplines • Length, reward, constraints • Support for discipline specific placement tutors • Support for students: CVs, letters, interviews • Liaison with companies

  5. The Products • Continuing Professional Development • Short Courses to Businesses • Mostly validated at M level through academic schools • Generally 4 or 5 day attendance, often spread • Targeted at the needs of local businesses • Staff driven v Business driven • Commercial activity at commercial rates

  6. The Products • Examples of Short Courses: • CAD training in specific packages • Environmental Management and Auditing • Practical Marketing for Businesses • Sustainable Energy in Buildings

  7. The Products • Work Based Qualifications • Part time MSc study based on work place activity • Tailored ‘learning contract’ for individual or group • Portfolio of project based work, standard modules and other learning opportunities • Assessments tailored to individually defined learning outcomes • Other CPD activity may be used towards qualification

  8. The Products • MSc examples (award titles) • MSc Systems Design • MSc Product Development • MSc Business Management and Marketing • MSc Manufacturing Process Improvement • MSc Open Source Head Tracking Software Development

  9. The Products • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) • Strategic, collaborative, profit producing, challenging • Typically 2 years in duration • Team: Company, Academic, Associate • £105k budget, partially government funded Salary, Development, Travel, Consumables, Academic Support, Administration • High application success rate • High ‘business impact’ success rate

  10. The Products • KTP Project Examples • New product development utilising new technologies • E-commerce and merchandising development • Business strategy development in sustainable design • Development of RFID technology for next generation products • Commercialisation of ‘academic’ research • Exploitation of new markets through process improvement

  11. The Service • Academic’s role • Growing resource • Business role • Commercial need • CTC role • interface, facilitate, administer

  12. Points of Contact • Head of Collaborative Training: m.p.jones@brighton.ac.uk • Industrial Placements: Liz.Vasillakes@brighton.ac.uk • CPD, short courses: b.m.gretton@brighton.ac.uk • Work Based Qualifications: m.p.jones@brighton.ac.uk • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships: k.pentol@brighton.ac.uk

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