Area Reviews

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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 Rationale behind Area Reviews

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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Newcastle College, West Lancashire College and Kidderminster College.

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How do you achieve this within a given locality?

The Area Review

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

There is a requirement for an Institute of Technology to be

set up in each area

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 has been possible?

Where are we now?

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

The image of what is to come?

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?

TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

The Aim