skills and the sub national review: a city region perspective ………………. paul thomas...
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Skills and the Sub National Review: A City Region
Perspective……………….Paul Thomas
Manchester Enterprises
Friday 15th February 2008
Presentation Format
• UK context• City regions• Greater Manchester• Sub National Review and Leitch• Implications for GM and other City/Sub-Regions
• Implications for HEIs and higher skills
UK Economic Context• Huge turn-round since 1970s• Growth of services sector• Improvements in manufacturing too• Growth supported by immigration• But:
– Growth unevenly distributed– Concentrated in London/SE– Other regions lagging– UK productivity still poor– Underlying skills problems– Worklessness and social exclusion
Annual GDP Growth in the World, the G7, and the UK
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UK City Region Movement
• Began in mid 1990s• Core Cities Group: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds,
Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield
• Led by local authorities• Prompted by:
– Regional disparities– Recognition of importance of clusters and City Regions – Concern re excessive centralisation of UK and concentration of growth in
London/SE
• Reinforced by Scottish/Welsh devolution
High Performing City Regions
• High value sectors predominate
• High levels of R&D
• Strong entrepreneurial culture
• Concentrations of international HQs
• Higher level skills
• Less reliance on public sector
• Efficient transport infrastructure
Geography
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Congleton
Vale Royal
Trafford
Stockport
Tameside
Salford
Wigan
Bury
Oldham
Rochdale
Bolton
Macclesfield
High Peak
Warrington
Map data: Crown CopyrightCrown Copyright is reproducedwith the permission of the controller of HMSOand the Queen's Printer for Scotland
Greater Manchester
Economic Strengths• Manchester is the key driver for the City Region and
NW Regional Economy; rapid growth in GVA within last decade
• £50.5bn GVA delivered within the MCR in 2004; representinghalf (50.4%) of NW total; 5% of UK total
• De-industrialisation: Loss of jobs in manufacturing; but significant growth in value added and Advanced Manufacturing
• Rapid growth in services: F&P; ICT Digital / Communications; Creative/Digital/New Media; Life Sciences; Public Sector
• Rising employment and employee wages over last decade
• +100,000 extra jobs forecast within the MCR over next decade (GMFM 2007), but downside risks emerging
Business
• Significant and diverse business base
– 115,000 workplaces in MCR; 88,000 in GM (2004)
• Business productivity levels above regional
average
• Entrepreneurship & new business start-up strong
• Long term business survival lags UK average
• Inward investment successes
• University base is internationally competitive
Labour Market• The largest Travel to Work Area outside London
• Significant labour pool:
– MCR 1.5m economically active residents (GM 1.1m)
• Population growth forecast to continue:
– MCR 0.1% pa growth 1998 to 2003
– 0.3% pa 2006 to 2021
• Worklessness still a big challenge
Skills
• Qualification levels of employees within GM compare well with regional and national averages
• However qualifications levels of residents lag behind national averages
• Lower level attainment remains a significant brakeon economic performance
• Demand for higher levels skills will continue apace
• 75% of job opportunities will require NVQ level 2; 50% level 3 or above, over next 10 years
Benchmarking Performance
• GM GVA per capita in 2003 exceeded:
– West Yorkshire (Leeds and Bradford)
– South West Scotland (Glasgow City)
– Lille (Northern France)
– Barcelona (North East Spain)
• But lagged ‘aspirational’ economies:
– London
– Munchen
• Economic disparities within the MCR
Performance Benchmarking: GVA Per Resident Capita (Index of 100 for the UK Average in 2004)
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International benchmarks based on GVA Purchasing Power Parity data
Source: Eurostat
Key Assets
• Sector “Accelerators”
– Financial and Professional Services; Life Science Industries; Creative, Cultural and Media; ICT/Digital/Communications; and Manufacturing
• Manchester Airport
• Concentration of world-class Universities
• Dynamic Private Sector
• Local authority collaboration
• Strong public/private partnership
Sub National Review and Leitch
SNR: response to Core Cities and Lyons report
Key elements of SNR (and related Leitch):
• Economic development remit for LAs
• Revised remit/role for RDAs
• Recognition of importance of skills
• Transfer of LSC budgets to LAs
• Employment and Skills Boards
• Encouragement to City/Sub Regions to collaborate
• Multi Area Agreements as key vehicle
SNR and Leitch: NW Response
MAA proposals submitted by:
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Fylde Coast
• Pennine Lancashire
Decisions by June 2008
MAAs
• A mechanism for achieving significant changes that could not be made in other ways
• Inability of Local Area Agreements to meet economic targets, as the effects of economic development policy occur at higher spatial levels
GM MAA
MAA will:• Contribute towards Greater Manchester achieving its
economic goals • Cover enterprise, growth, skills and employment =
the pillars• Be focused on strategic outcomes• Be flexible and incremental
MAA: • An important mechanism for improving city
governance, but not the only one
City/Sub-Regions: the Future
• Keen interest across country
• Bigger role in large /diverse regions such as NW
• Scottish devolution etc may give extra impetus
• Effective public/private partnership is vital
• Incremental development of governance
• Some cooperation between City Regions
• Complementing or competing with SE?
Implications for HE and Higher Skills
• Skills are central to City Region agendas
• Importance of higher skills recognised more and more
• Employers will want to include higher skills in ESB agendas
• Aligns with Govt pressure for HE employer responsiveness
• Likely to affect some HEIs more than others , because of
different missions
• But all will be affected
• Need to develop new partnership mechanisms and links,
where these do not already exist