Approaches to Employer Engagement A Partnership Approach to Employer Engagement

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Approaches to Employer EngagementA Partnership
Approach to Employer Engagement
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A Partnership Approach to Employer Engagement

• Helen Dewhurst, Leap Ahead Lifelong Learning
  Network for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

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Partnership

• fdf
• Employers TUI UK, BIA and over 50 others
• 8 (5) HEIs
• Bedfordshire University
• University College Birmingham
• University of Brighton
• Coventry University
• University of Derby
• University of Greenwich (Orpington College)
• University of Sunderland
• University of Wolverhampton
• 4 LLNs
• Other HEIs - ULCC
• The SSC, People 1st
• ABTA, ITT, Tourism Society

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Product

• National product FdA Travel Operations
  Management. Pilot 60 learners, full launch March
  09.
• Collaboration on development and delivery
• Development curriculum design, materials,
  platform
• Delivery common documentation, admissions,
  management and reform of processes (APEL)
  efficiency and transparency
• Further funding bids

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Platform
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Achieving sustainable employer responsive HE
through partnerships
Why? Challenges
Sector wide product Resource efficiencies Transparent HE offer to business Networking gains Pooling of specialisms Innovation Trust collaboration in curriculum development involves working with friends while cavorting with the enemy! (Weaver et al, 19872) QA Competition v partnership We can do that v reality Timescales Group work! Resources Culture change
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Does it/should it look like this?
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Bibliography

• Foskett, R. (2005) Collaborative partnership
  between HE and employers a study of workforce
  development. Journal of Further and Higher
  Education. 29(3) 251-264.
• Harvey, M. (2007) The changing power balance
  between learners, universities and work
  contexts. 28-35. IN D. Young and J. Garnett
  (2007) Work Based Learning Futures. Proceedings
  from the Work Based Learning Conference, Buxton,
  April.
• HEFCE (2008) Quality assurance and employer
  engagement in HE learning. Bristol HEFCE.
  September.
• Weaver, R.A., Coester, R.J. and McInosh, D.
  (1987) Collaboration in curriculum development a
  case study. Paper presented at the Annual
  Conference of the American Educational Research
  Association, Washington DC.

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