HEFCE Strategy on employer engagement

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HEFCE Strategy on employer engagement
Sarbani Banerjee
Skills for Justice HE Forum 21 March 2007
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Key issues for HE from Leitch

• World class skills the HE participation target
• Funding world class high skills
• Delivering a demand-led system
• Reform of existing structures -
  leadership/monitoring
• Sector Skills Councils re-focus on employer
  voice
• Encouraging individuals to invest in training
• Role of management and leadership

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Delivering world class high skills
HEFCE shared strategy. but dependent on demand

• Higher Level Skills pathfinders demand-led
• SDF projects on workforce development
• Expanding to new markets (public and private)
• Moving from cottage industry to mainstream
• HE Action Group on employer engagement
• QA and QE, funding, staff development, IT
• Funding method flexibility/costs/achievement

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Delivering world class high skills

• EE learner-centred approach
• Facilitating HE to understand and respond to
  markets
• Addressing the barriers to extending role of HE
  in workforce development regulatory and
  structural
• Working with demand side partners to raise demand
  for HE from employers/employees