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The skills and apprenticeships offers: Are they fit to encourage UK growth in the quantity,
geography, demography and skills areas we need? What has to be done to ensure that the gaps are filled?
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Youth and adult unemploymentHow do we compare?
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Best in classFinancial performance
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The UK challenge
Inadequate employability skills
Poor functional skills
Only one in six UK businesses has an apprenticeship scheme (15%)
Evidence of dire skills shortages
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The UK challenge
Differences in opinion over “education” and “training”
Differences in funding methodologies
Life-long learning
Gaps between schooling, vocational training (FE) and higher
education are woeful
Fragmented and dysfunctional
education system
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If a qualification is not about a passport to a job, or a higher level of education, then it has no purpose
Policy
Rigour and Responsiveness in Skills
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The Leading Model
The system is established in statute,
the Vocational Training Act 1969
60% of school leavers undertake an Apprenticeship
An integral part of the education
system in Germany
est.
1969
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The Leading Model
Programmes are developed which match skills development with needs of industry
There is more alignment between funders
Arrangement is between employers, trade unions and federal and state government for development of vocational training & education - they AGREE on the nature/content of what is learned in classroom and workplace learning
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How would the Government ensure
employers were accountable for public
funds when they are acting as both awarding body and
provider of the training?
To close the gaps……
esg. is supportive of building a skilled workforce - we recognise the need to
deliver skills that employers need
Employer Ownership of Skills
There is value in involving employers in developing the training schemes to benefit their particular
industry/company and employees
Further demand on an already overstretched ASB –
skills needs more money ?
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Summary
The different education and training sectors need to stop competing and start collaborating
Tax payers money for skills funding should be spent where
employers won’t spend
Large employers and SMES are chalk and cheese (kreide
and fromage!)
Too many reviews have been undertaken which have started in the wrong place,
been too narrow, simplistic and idealistic, flying straight by the bigger issues
It is not just Apprenticeships that aren’t fit for purpose but the whole system
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Thank you
Anthony BentonChief Operating Officer - Skills