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New Government Focus
• “Fixing the Foundations: Creating a more prosperous nation” Targets Productivity
• Shift from the focus on reducing unemployment and creating jobs
• Aim to equal USA’s productivity levels, which are 31% above UK’s
• Would be worth £25,000 per year for every household
Productivity
Cornwall£33,100
Plymouth£36,700
Torbay£33,000
Dorset£38,300
Somerset£38,000
Devon£35,700
The Focus
‘ We need to move towards fewer, larger, more resilient and efficient colleges.’
Nick Boles Minister for Skills
September 2015
Colleges of Further Education•Significant numbers are in financial difficulties•Reviews aim to remove duplication in the curriculum•Reduce management and admin costs•Make more efficient use of resources and raise productivity•Enable more efficient use of technology for both deliver and back room functions
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The Newcastle College Group
Newcastle College, West Lancashire College and Kidderminster College.
Intraining.Rathbone Training
The Area
Government’s guidance regarding ‘areas’
They can be:– A relevant functional economic area
– Population area, including travel to work lines
– Devolved area e.g. Cornwall
– A LEP area
Who should be involved?
1. The local F.E and Sixth form College Principals and their Chairs of Governors
2. Local Authorities3. LEP’s4. Funding Agencies5. FE & Sixth Form College Commissioners6. Regional Schools Commissioners7. BIS8. Ofsted9. Independent providers
Steering Group
• Will lead the review• Composed of local stakeholders• Chaired by an independent person• Responsible for ensuring that get a
coherent local outcome• Must ensure the technical and
professional progression routes reflect economic need.
The Timeline
•Review should take 3-4 months
•May vary according to the area
•All to be completed by March 2017
•Implementation to be as soon after the Reviews as possible
•Steering Groups to produce an implementation plan
How will it be done?• Tightly driven from the centre• Controlled by the FE
Commissioners Office• Announces dates of Area
Reviews• Sets out when each of the
required meetings will occur• Will ‘steer’ the group
Pilot Reviews
Two so far
1.North East Norfolk & North Suffolk
2.Nottingham
Their Impact:
a. East Anglian Colleges came together a federated model
b. Nottingham’s Colleges merged
Enabling more efficient & effective use of Technology
In terms of:
• Teaching
• Support
• Assessment
• Back Office
What is to come?
• The HoloLens device extends interaction with 3D models beyond the confines of a 2D computer screen, creating new ways for the many stakeholders of complex, multi-phase construction projects to visualise, collaborate, share ideas and manage change.
• Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), AR and VR are finally ready for commercial use.
What could this mean?
• Large capital set up costs• Delivery anyway with connectivity• Overcome off job training issues• Cut rural training access issues• Change infrastructure estate requirement
for Further Education• Could change the FE landscape
Fact or Fiction?• ‘This technology will revolutionise the way
building projects are designed, planned, managed and staff are trained’. CITB 2015
• So far the head-mounted displays used by most VR experiences are expensive to buy and to maintain.
• Few technicians have enough experience with the hardware to diagnose and subsequently fix any issues that arise with regular use.
• Used in the 2015 Sao Paulo World Skills competitions
Take up: Activate Learning
• A single company• Goal. To understand and utilise the benefits
and uses of social and digital learning tools • It owns Banbury& Bicester, City of Oxford,
and Reading Colleges• UTC Oxfordshire, UTC Reading • Studio School, an Academy chain• Delivers in Saudi Arabia
Activate Learning’s Target
• To have a turnover of £100m a year which would provide enough capital to invest in cutting edge Holo Technology
• To have enough income to be able to recruit leading staff from industry
• To have a standardised virtual vocational training product which can deliver across the globe.
Area Reviews
• Told to look at Digital Vocational Teaching in the future
• Use technology to cuts training costs in the long term
• Create larger units which will increase purchasing power and economies of scale
• Is this one way forward?
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