Hugh Tollyfield, MIoD

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UK Strategy for World Class Skills - A view
from the perspective of English Higher Education
Hugh Tollyfield, MIoD Higher Education Funding
Council for England Special Adviser, Employer
Engagement
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What do we mean by world class?
A thinking, educated workforce - working
intelligently
Dr Marilyn Wedgewood -Report to DfES
(2007) Employer Engagement-Barriers and
Facilitators
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Two Key UK Government Reports

• Leitch Review
• Prosperity for all
• in the global
• economy -
• World class skills
• (HM Treasury Dec 2006)

Sainsbury Review The Race to the Top A review
of the Governments science and innovation
policies (HM Treasury Oct 2007)
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Two Strong Themes Across the Reports

• High Quality
• Workforce
• Strategic Demand
• STEM and post-graduates
• Graduate Employability
• Generic and vocational
• knowledge and skills
• Demand Responsive
• CPD
• More people at HE level
• Include non-graduates

• Business-HE
• Partnerships
• Strategic Engagement
• Research partnerships
• Business Improvement
• Knowledge exchange
• Demand Responsive
• Consultancy
• Enterprise Development
• Supporting spin-outs

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UK workforce skills in a global economy

• Leitch Review (Dec 2006)
• The Review has concluded that the UK must
  commit itself to a world class skills base in
  order to secure prosperity and fairness in the
  new global economy.
• The Prize
• Economic Prosperity
• Increased Social Justice
• Driven By
• Increased productivity
• Improved employment

HM Treasury, Final Report of the Leitch Review
of Skills (December 2006) Prosperity for all
in the global economy world class skills
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Leitch Review Ambitions for 2020

• Working age adults in 2020
• 95 to be functionally literate numerate
• (2005 base - 85 and 79)
• 90 or more qualified to at least Level 2
• (2005 base - 69)
• Shifting the balance of intermediate skills from
  Level 2 to Level 3 with 1.9 million more people
  achieving Level 3 by 2020
• 40 or qualified to at least Level 4
• (2005 base - 29)

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The Drivers of Productivity
Sustainable growth in GDP per head/per hour
Increase Productivity (Output per worker)
Increase Employment (Adult economic activity)
Enterprise
Skills
Competition
Investment
Innovation
Productivity Drivers
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Moving Ahead

• Comprehensive implementation plan
• UK Commission for Employment and Skills
• Sector Skills Councils
• Vocational Qualifications
• Diplomas
• Apprenticeships
• Train To Gain
• The Skills Pledge
• Universal adult careers service
• New Legislation

Cmn 7181(July 2007) DIUS World Class Skills
Implementing Leitch Review of skills in England
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The Leitch challenge for HE
World class high skills, exceeding 40 of the
adult population qualified to Level 4 and above.
(By 2020)

• Everyone of working age
• Shared responsibility for funding employers,
  individuals and Government
• Focus on economically valuable skills
• Demand-led rather than centrally planned
• Adaptive and responsive to market needs
• Building on existing structures.

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The economic contribution of HE
UK HE is worth 45 billion to the economy on a
public investment of 15 billion.

• Income in 2005-06 from
• Collaborative research - 440m
• Contract research - 555m
• Consultancy - 200m
• CPD - 335m

And mainstream HE already a major supplier of an
economically valuable workforce.
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Where the focus of HE is critical Around 12
million people in work, most of whom wont
progress to HE unless we innovate, gain the
commitment and investment of employers and take
HE into the workplace.
DIUS estimates Labour Force Survey 2006,Q4
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Meeting the challenge
Growing the new market of employer co-funded
provision for people in work who may otherwise
never experience HE through

• Part-time and short course accredited
  modules/units
• APEL, progression and credit accumulation
• Validation of employer in-house training and
  shared delivery with employers
• Innovation in teaching and learning delivery.

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HE transforming workforce development Programme
2008-11
We shall be spending more than 100m on a
programme of action research to test employer
market for higher skills, increase employer
investment and building the HE response to
supplying it together with building new capacity
and capability in the HE sector.
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Our goals for 2008-11

• 20,000 extra entrants to HE based workforce
  development in 2010-11, backed by strong employer
  investment alongside public funding (5,000 in
  2008-09 and 10,000 in 2009-10)
• Transformational development of the HE sector
  aiming for a third or more of English HE
  providers involved in shared investment workforce
  development with employers
• Increase Foundation Degree enrolments to at least
  100,000 by 2010
• A new funding process to support future growth

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HEFCE Development Funded projects - breaking new
ground

• Coventry University
• Organisational development inside major national
  and international organisations
• London South Bank University
• Central employer engagement unit brings together
  academic course directors, careers and
  work-placement services
• Salford University
• Transformational programme, creating a
  university-wide workplace learning infrastructure

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