Delivering Employer Led Responsive Higher Level Work Based Learning: A Consortium Approach for the U

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Delivering Employer Led Responsive Higher Level
Work Based Learning A Consortium
Approach for the UK Travel Sector

• Helen Dewhurst, Leap Ahead
• Angela Maguire, fdf
• Andy Smyth, TUI UK Ireland

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What do employers want?

• Effective development solutions (accredited)
• Flexible packages that align with career ladders
• Value for money
• Quality product/access to the best
• Attractive and effective engagement processes
• Shared responsibility/intellectual capital
• Sustainability/cutting edge

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What do learners want?

• Knowledge, skills and personal development
• Challenge
• Support
• Clarity
• Value for money/quality product
• Progression/opportunity
• Recognition

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What do providers want?

• Demand/viability
• Income stream
• Quality
• Market position/leadership - become the
  deliverers of choice for higher level skills
  development (HEFCE, 2008)
• Opportunities to innovate
• Partnership
• Sustainability

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The future
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A collaborative project

• National product FdA Travel Operations
  Management
• Fdf, 6 HEIs, 3 LLNs, 50 employers
• Collaboration on development and delivery
• Development curriculum design, materials,
  platform
• Delivery common documentation, admissions,
  management and reform of processes (APEL)
  efficiency and transparency

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Platform
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Achieving sustainable employer responsive HE
The role of collaboration
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