Overview and context of ITQ

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Overview and context of ITQ

• Dr Genny Dixon, e-skills UK

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Overview and context of ITQ

• Sector Skills Agreement the context
• LSC/QCA/e-skills UK agreement
• e-skills Passport developments

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Industry Trends IT Insights
IT Insights e-skills UK and Gartner Nov 2004,
3200 responses
90 of new jobs demand IT user skills at
increasing levels of sophistication
Over ¼ of companies report skills gaps for their
users 2m people lack the IT user skills for
their current jobs 7.6m individuals need to
improve their IT skills in next 3 years
7 million
IT users 20 million
8m have received no training
Business Managers 4 million
IT workforce 1.2 million
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IT user qualifications

• More than 600 IT User qualifications
• 750,000 IT courses
• Only 54 of qualifications started are completed
  (350,000 lost and learning not carried forward)

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The context

• Employers main purpose is providing goods and
  services, not education or training
• Leitch says
• Present progress on skills merely maintains our
  international position
• Existing skills qualifications are not
  sufficiently owned by employers
• LSDA report on skills says
• Employers prefer informal learning that fits
  around shift patterns
• Employees often have negative views of education,
  fear being stigmatised and are unaware of
  opportunities

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ITQ represents

• An employer / sector led qualification
• A flexible framework to suit employers and
  employees
• A shared partnership priority for
  LSC/e-skills/QCA
• The flagship SSA commitment
• The flagship FfA

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LSC vision

• Increase investment in the right skills
• Increase the pool of skilled employees
• Increase supply side capacity to match

Our intention is to use ITQ to successfully
deliver all of our commitments to the ICT skills
sector
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ITQ essential features

• Employer designed
• 14 common computing techniques/units - skills
• Bespoke unit skills
• Sector specific unit
• Mandatory assessment - application
• 3 levels but spiky profiles
• Individual can qualify with skills at various
  levels
• Customisable to job role/individual need
• Employer/Training Provider decides ITQ profile
• Takes into account existing qualifications
• ECDL, Clait, MOS, e-Quals etc
• Modular journey every bit of learning counts

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Why ITQ matters
ITQ demonstrates a transferable skill, with
greater breadth, yet of lower cost (to
employers), than vendor qualifications Kit
Ruparel, Message Pad
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LSC/QCA/e-skills UK agreement

• 3 January 2006

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e-skills UK/LSC agreements

• Align all funding to ITQ and CQs
• Integrate e-skills Passport/ITQ
• Run large-scale Capacity Building programme
• 750,000 individuals by 2008

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1. Alignment of funding

• From September 2006, IT User qualifications will
  be aligned to the ITQ and those qualifications
  that contribute towards the ITQ.
• We intend to build on the current success of ITQ
  provision to ensure that from whatever starting
  point a learner embarks on an ITQ journey, every
  bit of learning will count and will be
  universally recognised.
• This alignment will require significant changes
  from everyone investing in skills.
• The LSC intends to support this by agreeing a
  plan to align funding behind this process and
  e-skills UK is working together with the QCA and
  Awarding Bodies to re-design qualifications to
  meet this need.

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Future funding first principles

• Sector Qualifications Strategy
• Requires ABs to re-design existing qualifications
  to match ITQ units 100
• Shared responsibility for funding
• Public contribution funds skills that deliver
  employability
• LSC funding aligned to ITQ from September 06
• Key for Train to Gain and L2 entitlement
• Employer contribution assumed
• Sustainable model
• Funding from range of sources
• Regional and learner priorities

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Result A coherent strategy

• All public funding on IT user qualifications is
  aligned to ITQ and the qualifications that
  contribute towards it
• ITQ framework reduces proliferation of
  qualifications
• Employers access skills improvement in a clear
  language
• Clear roadmap for learners
• Demand and supply inextricably linked

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2. e-skills Passport/ITQ

• There is a need for a common mechanism to record
  learners' achievement through ITQ such as
  e-skills Passport, which will record progress and
  achievements on route and demonstrate
  progression.
• This will support the needs of employers and
  individuals to tailor the ITQ qualification
  around specific job roles and circumstances, and
  progress at a pace that meets employer and
  learner needs.
• To achieve this, e-skills UK, the QCA and the LSC
  will establish how to integrate the e-skills
  Passport with ITQ by March 2006.

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A new ITQ delivery model

• All candidates register for the ITQ-integrated
  e-skills Passport
• Current skills assessment
• Existing qualifications recorded and verified
• ITQ profiling tool ITQ target set
• Means to draw down funds Passport No
• Progress and achievements recorded
• Reports, reports, reports

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3. Build capacity

• We will work together to increase the awareness
  of, demand for and capacity to deliver consistent
  success through ITQ. This means ensuring that our
  training provision is able to deliver ITQ,
  confident of what constitutes good practice in
  this new approach to IT User qualifications and
  that the qualification and model of delivery are
  fit for purpose.
• Within this, there is considerable demand from
  individuals and employers for bite sized 'just in
  time' learning.
• In 2006, as part of the preparation for
  implementation of the Framework for Achievement,
  we will pilot a unitisation funding methodology
  supporting this approach through ITQ, so that ITQ
  units can be individually funded, delivered and
  assessed.

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LSC support

• Planning and Purchasing
• SSA commitment
• Planning Guidance Priority
• Aligning with other LSC provision e.g. Train to
  Gain
• Qualifications Review
• Support for SQS as guide to preferred
  qualifications
• FfA trials
• Progressing ULN and data tracking changes
• Alignment with new funding proposals
• Capacity Building
• ITQ regional champions

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Around the regions

• East Midlands Provider workshops
• Senior Manager and Assessor
• West Midlands ITQ provider skillset
• LLUK CPD module
• East of England
• Unitisation of funding pilot
• Travel agents, school support staff, IKEA,
  Rentokil
• Investigate education-based assessment
• North West
• Train to Gain model

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Creating Demand

• Employer events
• Marketing collateral
• Leaflets, postcards
• Case studies
• ITQ website
• e-skills Passport guides

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e-skills Passport is changing

• from 28 March 2006

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e-skills Passport Office

• Super User role Administrator
• Pre-register users
• Create customised registration form
• Add own company logo
• Add training, including in house courses
• Manage Teams of Users
• View reports across organisation and teams

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The e-skills Passport User
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Passport Control
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Skills assessed against ITQ profile set by
manager .or against all techniques
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Qualifications verified against AB data
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www.itq.org.ukwww.e-skills.comwww.e-skillspasspo
rt.com

• For more information

genny.dixon_at_e-skills.com