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The Leitch Review: challenges and implications for Wales

FE Essential Skills Managers Network All Wales Schools Network Key Skills Experts’ Panel Key Skills Update October 2008. The Leitch Review: challenges and implications for Wales. Kim Clark and Jeff Moses Senior Key Skills and Convergence Managers

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The Leitch Review: challenges and implications for Wales

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  1. FE Essential Skills Managers Network All Wales Schools Network Key Skills Experts’ Panel Key Skills Update October 2008 The Leitch Review: challenges and implications for Wales Kim Clark and Jeff Moses Senior Key Skills and Convergence Managers Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills Steve Marshall Director Department of Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills Welsh Assembly Government

  2. Agenda - morning 10:00 Welcome and KSSPC update - Kim Clark 10:10 Essential Skills Wales Update - Mali Davies, Head of Key, Basic and Entry Level qualifications, DCELLS 10:30 The Estyn Key Skills Remit – Una Connolly Estyn 11:00 e-skills UK : Update on the Welsh Baccalaureate and IT   - Peter Sishton Developments on the ITQ - Genny Dixon 12:00 Key Skills through the Skillbuild programme at Yale – Bethan Parry Rogerson 12:30 -1:30 LUNCH

  3. Agenda - afternoon 1:30 Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) Toolkit for WBL – Jane Ellis DCELLS 2:00 Key Skills and ESDGC example portfolio – Sue Morgan Jones, Arfon Dwyfor Training 2:20 Key Skills Resource update and development - Karen Ford and Matthew Geary, NGFL Cymru 3:00 Welsh Baccalaureate and WBL update 3:30 Plenary Next meeting 27th January 2009 Note that the KSEP can Pilot the AON/IOLP e-portfolio

  4. Welcome & Roundtable

  5. ‘Transforming Education and Training Provision in Wales’ ‘Transforming Education and Training Provision in Wales’ was released on September 10th. The full policy document can be downloaded at: http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills/publications/guidance/transformingprovisionwales/?lang=en

  6. ‘Transforming Education and Training Provision in Wales’ • The aim is to establish a post-16 education and training system that will better cater for the needs of all learners and demands of employers; • The policy relates to post-16 provision, but we would be open to discussions with those local authorities who wish to develop proposals to link pre- and post-16 transformation; • Policy implementation is not through a "one-size-fits-all" approach.  Consequently, the framework that is non-prescriptive  and this allows stakeholders to put forward their own plans to make significant changes to post-16 provision, based on local needs and demands.  For this reason the Webb consortium model is not universally being universally prescribed; • The document is not a consultation document;  consultation was provided via the StWfW earlier in the year; • Response to the policy is not optional; it requires all providers and provider managers to support the transformation policy by planning and implementing change to secure significant improvements for all learners; • Timelines are ambitious (Strategic Outline Programmes are required by January 2009) partly in response to many stakeholders already setting themselves ambitious plans to reshape post-16 learning delivery;   and partly because the status quo will not deliver the skills required for life in the 21st Century; and • DCELLS is taking forward a number of activities to support providers and provider managers in successfully responding to the policy.  This involves provider and provider manager seminars in October and one-to-one meetings with local strategic leaders  to discuss proposals, issues and concerns.

  7. Key Skills Achievements In Wales 2006/2007 • Further Education 49,432 • WBL 51,385 • Schools 29,188 Total 130,0005

  8. Achievements on WBL Skill Build programmes 2006/07 Key Skills 20,140 Adult Literacy 1,495 Adult numeracy 1,735

  9. WBQ - Key Skills Achievement at Foundation Level Key Skills Total Pass Schools% College% (%)2007 in Brackets • Application of Number 62(59) 71 60 • Communication 81(88) 87 79 • ICT 75(76) 83 73 • Working with Others 62(78) 28 70 • Problem Solving 43(48) 63 38 • IOLP 53(75) 23 60 *14 candidates claimed a proxy for IT Source Gavin Thomas, Fforwm

  10. WBQ - Key Skills Achievement at Intermediate Level Key Skill Total College Level 1 2 3 1 2 3 • AON 47 53 - 53 47 - • Comms 14 86 (1) 15 85 (1) • IT 24 76 (2) 21 79 (1) • WWO 27 73 (4) 23 77 (1) • PS 52 48 (4) 55 45 (1) • IOLP 52 48 (2) 23 77 (1) Source Gavin Thomas, Fforwm

  11. WBQ - KS Achievements at Advanced Level • Key Skill % Sitting L2/L3 Colleges % • AON L2 92.5 94.9 • AON C3 7.5 5.1 • Comms L2 7.9 13.9 • Comms L3 92.1 86.1 • ICT L2 79.4 79.6 • ICT L3 20.6 20.4 • WWO L2 4.6 8.1 • WWO L3 95.4 91.9 • PS L2 46.4 37.2 • PS L3 53.6 62.8 • IOLP L2 9.8 15.1 • IOLP L3 91.2 84.9 Source Gavin Thomas, Fforwm

  12. National Comparators for Further Education and Work Based Learning, 2006/07 The key points from the latest release are: • Overall success rates were 60% in FE and 65% in WBL. • Just under 50% of learners leaving Modern Apprenticeship (MA) and Foundation Modern Apprenticeship (FMA) programmes in 2006/07 achieved their full apprenticeship framework. FMA success rates were consistently higher than those for MAs, with the majority of subject areas exceeding the current Welsh Assembly Government contractual requirement of 50% framework success. • There was considerable variation in outcomes across subject areas. In FE learning activity success rates varied from 38% to 76%, while in WBL analysis of the key measure of framework success shows outcomes as low as 26% and as high as 62%. http://new.wales.gov.uk/statsdocs/post16ed/sdr106-2008.pdf?lang=en

  13. Comparators • Data underpinning the 2006/2007 performance measures will be included in WAG, DCELLS online benchmarking tool • www.tribalbenchmarking.co.uk/wales/default.aspx

  14. WBL providers involved in the Benchmarking Pilot Arfon Dwyfor Training Ltd Aspiration Training Ltd Cambrian Training Company Cardiff ITEC Network Training Services Ltd North Wales Training Protocol Skills PRP Training Ltd South Wales Assessment & Training Services Ltd SportTrain Wales Ltd Tydfil Training Consortium Ltd Vale of Glamorgan Training Association ACO Training Acorn Learning Solutions Action for Employment Construction Industry Training Board Focus on League Football Education Learnkit Ltd Newport & Gwent Enterprise Professional &Technical Rathbone Training Talk Training Torfaen CBC Wrexham ITEC

  15. Benchmarking The key benefits that underpin the benchmarking project include: • The provision of a web based self assessment tool that facilitates diagnostic analysis and supports decision-making for providers. • A tool which enables providers to learn from best practice to enhance their own processes and drive improvements in quality and value for money thereby contributing to a culture of self-improvement amongst providers. • A tool which enables providers to make comparisons both within and outside of Wales establishing an understanding of the relationship between cost and quality in each sector. • The opportunity to enhance the culture of collaboration between colleges, schools and work based learning providers. This will strengthen the learning network, build capacity and optimise internal resource allocation. contact the Welsh Assembly Government Project Team on: 01443 663926 | email: post16benchmarkinghelp@wales.gsi.gov.uk

  16. Project to develop Learning Delivery National Occupational Standards LLUK Development of the UK National Occupational Standards in Delivery, building on the work which led to the production of the Professional Standards for Tutors, teachers & Trainers in Wales.

  17. Objectives • To develop Learning Delivery National Occupational Standards (LDNOS) • Use LDNOS to agree common ground across the UK nations, which will enable the transfer of skills whilst recognising key national differences through existing and pending Professional Standards • Produce a UK wide qualifications map indicating the barriers to transferring skills across the nations For more informationhttp://www.ukstandards.org.uk/

  18. 'Slash Training at Your Peril' Warn Business Bosses - England Press Release In an open letter published in national newspapers today (Thursday), some of the UK's top business people including Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT group and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman of Marks & Spencer and Business in the Community, Mervyn Davies, Chairman of Standard Chartered plc and Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI, together with Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the TUC, urge employers to sustain or even increase their investment in training, saying: "Now is precisely the time to keep investing in the skills and talents of our people.  It is the people we employ who will get us through.  When markets are shrinking and order books falling, it is their commitment, productivity and ability to add value that will keep us competitive.  Investing now in building new skills will put us in the strongest position as the economy recovers.“ http://www.ukces.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=4659 UKCES The UK Commission for Employment and Skills

  19. Key Skills Resources • Key Skills in Wales www.dysg.org.uk • Wales’ Key Skills E-learning materials www.e-dysg.org.uk • NGFL Cymru http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng/index-new.htm • QCA Key Skills Standards and Guidance http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_6551aspx • Key-line - registration is no longer required http://www.keyskillssupport.net/search/Resource-27547.aspx • All Learning for Work resources also re-branded and available on Gateway to Excellence website http://excellence.qia.org.uk/search.aspx?o=search&ss=QUERY%5Bprovider%3A108+AND+%28Key+Skills+resources%29%5D&site=tlp • Key Skills 4U materials http://flt.excellence.qia.org.uk/document.asp?id=261&pageno= • Pedagogy materials • http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/tlp/pedagogy/introducingthe1/introducingthe1/index.html • Awarding Bodies also have key skills resources

  20. For Information Kim Clark Senior and Jeff Moses Key Skills and Convergence Managers DCELLS, Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills, Welsh Assembly Government Address: Ty'r Llyn, Clos Llyn Cwm, Swansea Enterprise Park, Swansea SA6 8AH Tel: 01792 765 800 Transferable Skills in: Further Education kim.clarke@Wales.GSI.gov.uk Work based learning providers kim.clarke@Wales.GSI.gov.uk Schools and Welsh Bac centres jeff.moses@wales.gsi.gov.uk Professional Development: http://www.e-dysg.org.uk

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