Presentation to Governors March 2010 The Strategic Enterprise and Business Unit

Enterprise and Employer Engagement (E3)

Key E3 Drivers

• Delivering the Future Skills and HEIF 4 projects• Building new markets, creating sustainable income streams• Changing culture, building capacity, developing capability and

re-engineering the curriculum and delivery mechanisms• Nurturing creativity, enterprise and entrepreneurialism• Creating agility, flexibility and market responsiveness• Focusing on employability benefits to graduates and the quality

of their experience • Establishing a distinct UWL brand that has at its heart a promise

which unlocks a dream

This requires a major change in theculture of our higher education systemwhere the focus of expansion hashitherto been in three year full timedegree courses. Reflecting demandfrom learners and employers, thosecourses will continue to play a centralpart. However, the next phase ofexpansion in higher education willhinge on providing opportunities fordifferent types of people to study in awider range of ways than in the past.The focus will therefore be on a greaterdiversity of models of learning:part-time, work-based, foundationdegrees, and studying whilst at home.

We will give priority to growing adiverse range of models of highereducation. These include options suchas part-time and workplace-basedcourses aimed particularly at maturestudents or those from nonconventionalbackgrounds. We will also encourage the further expansion of the successful foundation degree, a vocational qualification completed in two years designed jointly between employers and higher education

We will ask all universities to publish astatement on how they promote studentemployability.

It is a top concern forbusiness that students should leaveuniversity better equipped with awider range of employability skills.

All universities should be expectedto demonstrate how their institutionprepares its students for employment,including through training in modernworkplace skills such as team working,business awareness, and communication skills.

all from ‘Higher-Ambitions’, dBIS, Nov 2009

Faculties and Delivery Partners

SEBU and Central Services

Employers

UWLPromise

Graduate Internships

reputation and

perception

knowledge transfer

awareness of commercial

value of graduates

curriculum development

research

new employer

links

employability skills and

competencies

an example: