Re Q 2
Skills training is too complex. Sector Skills council promote the skills for their industries but potential employees are often unclear about ehri skills and their opportunities. It should start with a mandatary IAG session with a MATRIX accredited provider completing a national skills audit, training needs and interested in sectors common electronic document. the Institute would be happy to develop it. Then training could be planned by the employer or providers as required.
Q 3 Shared services between SSC’s . The unemployed should be trained as well as employees with a contract for at least a year too much training is going on casual or short term employees.
4. Maths is the key level three is harder because of the numeracy element most people can achieve the rest. Numeracy needs to be better taught in schools and colleges and be a premium area. Some employers are suspicious of the young to invest their commitment into there should be opportunities for mature apprentices.
5. Apprenticeship readiness starts with soft skills they have been squeezed out of a too busy national curriculum. Social and Life skills should be a core intensive course offered by Institutions with a post 19 contract and an adult ethos so that younger people learn to act accordingly.
6. Foundation degrees are more apt than Higher Apprenticeships, don’t flog a brand too hard.
7. This is the T2G failure apart from Skills for Life and it does not lead to competitiveness. Assessors need to assess competences not shown at the outset rather than those implicit in the job.
8. Set up facilitated support networks for the unemployed with a component of peer programming.
9. Insist that workplace volunteering is a key component to most qualifications, this must go for HE as well.
treasure entrepreneurs not c list ‘celebrities’ stop the low focus as in the Daily Mail of being slim!
11 Entitlement without IAG is valueless
12. Teach learners that they must pay a contribution and hold the provider to account for quality
13. Employers are often too busy surviving it is not their primary focus.
14. Employers like the balance of underpinning knowledge plus skills assessment those should be the primary model
16. Get rid of national services and contract matrix accredited providers to meet local needs
17. Lifelong learning accounts will advantage the middle classes.
18. Most people can find the info they need if they are internet savvy offer free half day courses on career and learning searches in libraries and colleges.
21 Colleges are dependent on employers to deliver economic value unless you fund colleges to be hatcheries for entrepreneurs.
Disseminate UKCES research more widely employers will only access what they need to know, keep it simple.
25. If new employees had high level english maths and It at entry, as an employer they are still not good enough.
26. Celebrate great leaders and leadership Dragons Den and the Apprentice very powerful courses could be linked to the programmes.
27. Set up speed dating site for private sector and voluntary sector to link up.
29. We are at the heart of this businesses are narrow in their setting of priorities if they were given tax breaks it would help.
Nos of adults engaged in learning. Summary of quality evaluations, impact assessment on local businesses working with providers
Sustainable Growth is an oxymoron. We can’t have indefinite growth on a finite planet.
The continued pursuit of a dynamic economy will continue to increase gobal pollution levels, reduce species diversity, increase financial inequity across the globe, and decrease possibilities for contentment.
We don’t need a dynamic economy. What we need are sustainable communities. In focusing on the economy, we miss the bigger picture – that human activites are ultimately constrained by environmental limits, and what we really need are social skills to live within those constraints.
It would be more timely and appropriate to talk about Skills for Sustainable Contraction, or at least Skills for Sustainable Communities.
Sustainable growth of the intellect and the mind is achievable and not dependent on the world’s resources. Resourcefulness is often an outcome of the capacity and the opportunity to learn and the best route out of poverty for every generation and disadvantaged group. As an adult learning charity we can help provide that route even if the currency of existence ends up being more barter and exchange than pure consumption.
My comments are about the unique nature of central Lonndon Adult Education Institutes such as the City Lit and Morley College who play such an important part in the London community. As many London Boroughs have diminished their own adult education provision, these institutions have become even more vital. While not denying the essential need to develop skills and knowledge specifically for employment, I hope that the present government will take note, in their funding review, of the importamnce of a wider curriculum, not necessarily exam based that enhances the lives, employment opportunities and educational potential of so many Londoners. Having worked in Further and Higher education, I regard the City Lit, where I work and have attended courses, as outstanding in the high quality of its teaching, the purposefulness of its students and the interest of its curriculum offer. London has numerous Further Education Colleges, all keen to develop employment based learning, I hope you will allow these two wonderful adult education institutions to continue to serve the adults of London retaining their high standards and traditional ethos
Re Q 2
Skills training is too complex. Sector Skills council promote the skills for their industries but potential employees are often unclear about ehri skills and their opportunities. It should start with a mandatary IAG session with a MATRIX accredited provider completing a national skills audit, training needs and interested in sectors common electronic document. the Institute would be happy to develop it. Then training could be planned by the employer or providers as required.
Q 3 Shared services between SSC’s . The unemployed should be trained as well as employees with a contract for at least a year too much training is going on casual or short term employees.
4. Maths is the key level three is harder because of the numeracy element most people can achieve the rest. Numeracy needs to be better taught in schools and colleges and be a premium area. Some employers are suspicious of the young to invest their commitment into there should be opportunities for mature apprentices.
5. Apprenticeship readiness starts with soft skills they have been squeezed out of a too busy national curriculum. Social and Life skills should be a core intensive course offered by Institutions with a post 19 contract and an adult ethos so that younger people learn to act accordingly.
6. Foundation degrees are more apt than Higher Apprenticeships, don’t flog a brand too hard.
7. This is the T2G failure apart from Skills for Life and it does not lead to competitiveness. Assessors need to assess competences not shown at the outset rather than those implicit in the job.
8. Set up facilitated support networks for the unemployed with a component of peer programming.
9. Insist that workplace volunteering is a key component to most qualifications, this must go for HE as well.
treasure entrepreneurs not c list ‘celebrities’ stop the low focus as in the Daily Mail of being slim!
11 Entitlement without IAG is valueless
12. Teach learners that they must pay a contribution and hold the provider to account for quality
13. Employers are often too busy surviving it is not their primary focus.
14. Employers like the balance of underpinning knowledge plus skills assessment those should be the primary model
16. Get rid of national services and contract matrix accredited providers to meet local needs
17. Lifelong learning accounts will advantage the middle classes.
18. Most people can find the info they need if they are internet savvy offer free half day courses on career and learning searches in libraries and colleges.
21 Colleges are dependent on employers to deliver economic value unless you fund colleges to be hatcheries for entrepreneurs.
Disseminate UKCES research more widely employers will only access what they need to know, keep it simple.
25. If new employees had high level english maths and It at entry, as an employer they are still not good enough.
26. Celebrate great leaders and leadership Dragons Den and the Apprentice very powerful courses could be linked to the programmes.
27. Set up speed dating site for private sector and voluntary sector to link up.
29. We are at the heart of this businesses are narrow in their setting of priorities if they were given tax breaks it would help.
Nos of adults engaged in learning. Summary of quality evaluations, impact assessment on local businesses working with providers
Sustainable Growth is an oxymoron. We can’t have indefinite growth on a finite planet.
The continued pursuit of a dynamic economy will continue to increase gobal pollution levels, reduce species diversity, increase financial inequity across the globe, and decrease possibilities for contentment.
We don’t need a dynamic economy. What we need are sustainable communities. In focusing on the economy, we miss the bigger picture – that human activites are ultimately constrained by environmental limits, and what we really need are social skills to live within those constraints.
It would be more timely and appropriate to talk about Skills for Sustainable Contraction, or at least Skills for Sustainable Communities.
Sustainable growth of the intellect and the mind is achievable and not dependent on the world’s resources. Resourcefulness is often an outcome of the capacity and the opportunity to learn and the best route out of poverty for every generation and disadvantaged group. As an adult learning charity we can help provide that route even if the currency of existence ends up being more barter and exchange than pure consumption.
Great comment, thanks Joy.
My comments are about the unique nature of central Lonndon Adult Education Institutes such as the City Lit and Morley College who play such an important part in the London community. As many London Boroughs have diminished their own adult education provision, these institutions have become even more vital. While not denying the essential need to develop skills and knowledge specifically for employment, I hope that the present government will take note, in their funding review, of the importamnce of a wider curriculum, not necessarily exam based that enhances the lives, employment opportunities and educational potential of so many Londoners. Having worked in Further and Higher education, I regard the City Lit, where I work and have attended courses, as outstanding in the high quality of its teaching, the purposefulness of its students and the interest of its curriculum offer. London has numerous Further Education Colleges, all keen to develop employment based learning, I hope you will allow these two wonderful adult education institutions to continue to serve the adults of London retaining their high standards and traditional ethos