Diplomas The Final Frontier

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Diplomas The Final Frontier?

• LEACAN Conference 2008
• Hugh Milroy Lesley Chadwick

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Liverpool Context

• 30 x 11-18 schools
• Mix of denominational and non denominational
• 3 academies
• Falling rolls
• Reorganisation
• BSF and schools relocating
• Neighbourhoods

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Planning Development Creating Diploma
Partnerships
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Liverpool 14-19 Vision

• To create a transformational and world class
• 14-19 system which gives every learner the
• entitlement to access the full range of
• qualification pathways
• General education ( A Levels GCSEs IB)
• Diplomas
• Young Apprenticeships and Apprenticeships
• Foundation Learning Tier / My Choice

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Bringing Learning to Life

• Liverpool Diploma partnerships have accepted this
  as our challenge
• Commitment that diplomas will offer a different
  style of learning
• Diplomas for high achieving learners something
  to aspire to
• Creating different learning environments and
  neutral venues.

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Vision underpinned by

• Locally Agreed Entitlement Statement
• Four travel to learn partnerships
• Agreed timetable model
• Strong partnership working with key agencies
• Effective Information, Advice and Guidance
  including www.i-choose.liverpool.co.uk based on
  current labour market information and mapped
  progression routes
• E tracking system
• Effective management of funding streams
• Rigorous challenge of QA and data

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Travel to Learn Partnerships
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Planned Diplomas

• Schools some specialist college input
• IT
• Creative Media
• SHD
• Business Admin Finance
• Travel Tourism
• Sport Active Leisure
• Languages
• Humanities
• Science

• College/WBL with some school input
• Engineering
• Construction Built Environment
• Hospitality
• Hairdressing and Beauty
• Retail
• Public Services
• Environment Land Based
• Manufacturing

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Build on Local 14-19 Partnerships

• Included key players from the outset
• Established principle that schools, college and
  work based learning providers are equal partners
• LA Managed proposals centrally to ensure
  partnerships reflect this principle
• Once established partnerships took ownership of
  proposals

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Key Partners

• Connexions Greater Merseyside
• Aim Higher Liverpool City of Learning
• Liverpool Compact EBP
• Liverpool Work Based Learning Federation
• LASH
• BSF Team
• SNS Team

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Facilities Development Innovation
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Creating Different Learning Environments

• Neutral Venues
• BSF
• City Learning Centres
• Skills Centres
• Learning Zones

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BSF

• Working closely with BSF team to ensure plans
  reflect needs of partnerships but still seeking
  neutral venues BSF not always the solution
• Spin off opportunities for employer engagement
  with BSF supply chain
• BSF supporting infrastructure development e
  tracking

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City Learning Centres

• 14-19 clear links to CLCs agenda
• Well placed to support partnerships both
  geographically and strategically
• Facilities well matched to diploma needs
• Existing use of specialist staff
• Eg Bosco CLC

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Bosco CLC

• Facilities to simulate living working theatre
• Animation
• Editing Suite
• Dance Studio
• Theatre
• Hi tech sound and lighting
• Recording Studio
• Facilities to be combined with artists in
  residence to create applied learning

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Skills Centres

• Partnerships keen to develop other local
  facilities
• Funding possibilities through pooled DSG
• Sunflower Centre Hair Beauty, SHD, BAF, IT,
  Hospitality

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Alder Hey Hospital

• Alder Hey Hospital Trust
• Access to 4 sectors
• Realistic Scenarios
• Real Life Case Studies
• Employment Standards dress, access
• CRB checks
• Input from professionals

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North Liverpool ICT/Business Centre

• New Capital Build
• Modern newly built office environment
• Run as business staffed by learners
• Clients charities, primary schools local
  companies
• Real working environment
• Team/departments

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Structures to Support Change
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Structures to Support Change

• Diploma Management
• Common timetabling
• Financial Control and Protocol
• Quality Assurance and Protocols
• E-tracking

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Finance

• Funding following the learner
• LA Managing Diploma Uplift
• LA manages DDSG for PLO
• Agreed rates for LCC, WBL and Employers for
  off-site learning

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Quality Assurance

• Charters
• Protocols
• Kitemark for Managers and Providers of Off Site
  Learning (OSLA)
• Domain Assessors ( Coordinators)
• Lead Assessor ( Quality Group Function)

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E- Tracking

• Concerns in Managing Learning Across Multiple
  Sites
• Volume of learners and range and number of
  learning centres
• Communicating/tracking learner progress
• Administration of attendance and progress data
• Central intelligence
• Issues
• Need for inter-operability of different IT
  systems
• VLE and BSF programme
• Progress
• City-wide electronic system of information
  transfer utilising VLE
• Real time attendance
• Tracking of learner progress
• Central management of system
• Full stakeholder involvement

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Diploma Recruitment

• Schools identified likely learners
• Recruitment above target
• 253 learners 5 lines.
• Recruited at L2/3 for all 5 lines
• Recruited at L1 for CBE and Engineering
• Did not recruit at L1 for IT, CM or SHD

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Employer Engagement
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Liverpool Compact EBP

• Key element of employer engagement strategy
• Supported diploma partnerships and proposal
  developments
• Development of work experience programme to
  reflect and prioritise the needs of diploma
  students
• Acknowledged new approaches to work experience
  needed
• Dedicated staffing via diploma start up funding
• Strategic Engagement via BSF etc

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• Employer Engagement Strategy
• Series of Launches / Employer Awareness
  sessions
• Employer Champions
• Make Links at events
• Follow up leads
• Build/maintain relationships

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• Employer Champions
• Engineering Jaguar Land Rover
• Creative Media BBC Radio
• Merseyside Lime Pictures
• I.T. Merseyside ICT Rapid
• Technologies
• C BE Balfour Beatty 2020
• Liverpool, Construction Skills
• SHAD Alder Hey Merseyside
• Fire Rescue

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Important Points/Issues

• Work in Partnership Steering
• Group, SSCs, Industry Networks,
• in-house networks
• Schools / College liaison,
• Diploma specifications
• Communication with employers
• maintaining the relationship
• New leads using Health Safety
• Officer employer visits

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Types of Employer Engagement

• Work Experience
• Advice on specialised learning units
• Teacher placements
• Delivery of units
• Visits and speakers
• Project Briefs