college he and higher vocational education project outline and progress
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College HE and Higher Vocational Education Project Outline and Progress. Professor John Storan – Director, Continuum UEL AoC Conference 20 November 2013. Project Aims understanding the issues. Applicant Behaviour Why CHE part time HE student enrolments have decreased - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
College HE and Higher Vocational Education
Project Outline and Progress
Professor John Storan – Director, Continuum UEL
AoC Conference 20 November 2013
Project Aims understanding the issues
• Applicant Behaviour– Why CHE part time HE student enrolments have decreased– What intervention options could be identified to assist
government in assessing viable solutions.• Barriers to CHE Expansion
– Examine the contractual, funding and validation arrangements of CHE to assess what impact these factors have on the scope for CHE to act as agents in the HE market
– Explore what measures could be introduced to support further provider entry and expansion.
Objectives – Building the Evidence Base
• Establish the quantity and extent of part time and full time college HE,
• Establish future ambitions of CHE• Student perspective - reasons for decline in recruitment
to p/t HE in FE courses• Employer perspective - reasons for decline in recruitment
to p/t HE in FE courses• Identify future College HE plans, to more fully understand
ambitions for HE expansion or contraction;• Identify barriers and constraints for College HE expansion;
Approach – Working with the Stakeholders
• Rapid review of the literature and policy documents (including College plans
• Analysis of enrolment and demographic data from research sites (30 colleges)
• Survey of applicants (exact population to be established once research sites identified)
• Survey of CHE providers • Survey of employers • Interviews with employers• Interviews with CHE providers (30-45 interviews)• Focus Groups with applicants
Progress and Challenges (Phase 1)
• Phase 1 (June 2013- July 2014) Phase 2 (July 2014- July 2015)
• Dr Arti Saraswat Senior Research Fellow (College HE) + Dr Anne Thompson as a project advisor
• Project literature Review completed • Data Specification finalized • Research instrument in preparation• First Steering Group meeting held • Second Steering Group meeting December 2013
Project contact information
Dr Arti Saraswat Senior Research Fellow ContinuumUniversity of East LondonLondon E16 2RDTel: 020 8223 2162E-mail:
www.uel.ac.uk/continuum
Tony HudsonResearch ManagerContinuumUniversity of East LondonLondon E16 2RDTel: 020 8223 7772E-mail:
www.uel.ac.uk/continuum