NHSU Whither the public sector corporate university

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NHSU Whither the public sector corporate
university?
Enterprise and Excellence

• Jeffrey Defries
• NHSU Secretary

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NHSU
R.I.P
NHSU Born 2001 Died 2005
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2001

• For too long education and training in the NHS
  has been the privilege of a few NHSU will make
  it a right for everyone
• Alan Milburn (Secretary of State for Health)
• NHSU is a big idea to help meet a very big
  challenge the wholesale transformation of
  healthcare delivery in this country John Hutton
  (Minister of State for Health)

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2004

• The organisation of arms length bodies has
  grown over several decades and no longer meets
  the health and social care needs of today or the
  future.
• It is now intended to bring together the work of
  the NHS Modernisation Agency, the Leadership
  Centre and NHSU into a single NSH Institute for
  Learning, Skills and Innovation placing
  innovation and learning at the heart of the NHS
  John Reid (Secretary of State for Health)

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The Big Issue

• Access to education, training and development
  opportunities depends on where you work, who you
  are and what you do, as much as on individual or
  service needs.
• (Hidden Talents, Audit Commission, 2001)

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Current UK adult participation in learning
future learning intentions, by social class
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NHSU Core Purpose

• To contribute to radical change and improvement
  in health and social care through the
  transformation of learning

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Investing in Our People

• Investing in Learning The common mission of
  corporate universities seems to be around
• Embedding of change and capture of best practice
• Global benchmarking for excellence
• Strategic driver for change

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Headline Numbers

• Total number of learner enrolments 55,000
• Total number of affiliate NHS Trusts 370
• Total number of Ui contacts (Information Advice
  and Guidance Services) c.10,000

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The Learning Society

• Dearing in the future competitive advantage
  for advanced economies will lie, in the quality,
  effectiveness and relevance of education and
  training, and the extent of their shared
  commitment to learning
• Motorola claims to be the learning organisation
  of the corporation

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University Status The Issues

• Independence
• Degree awarding powers
• Number of students, in total and on HE courses
• Diversity of subject areas
• Quality and accreditation

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On Governance and Independence

• The second Nolan Report said We do not
  believe there is an absolute principle that
  prevents the government, the funding council or
  some other public body from attaching conditions
  to money given to a university. The freedom of
  action of institutions will be circumscribed by
  their extent of dependence on public funds

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On Numbers and Precedent

• NHSU would be the first national university
  created de novo since the Open University
• Like the OU, the potential population ( a
  workforce of 1.3m) is immense so that even a very
  small proportion of the total number would yield
  more HE numbers than any existing university, OU
  and London University apart.

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On Apprenticeship

• Having an independent Academic Board
• Having proper external accreditation at all
  levels
• Appointing a National Academic Partner
• Appointing regional HE/FE partners
• Ensuring that programmes, curricula and modules
  are developed on sound pedagogic principles
  underpinned by rigorous assessment and validation

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Core Purpose

• To contribute to radical change and improvement
  in health and social care through the
  transformation of learning

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The Main Purposes of Learning

• According to the celebrated Delors
  Commission on Lifelong Learning, The Treasure
  Within, they are fourfold
• Learning to Know (learning to learn, general
  knowledge understanding)
• Learning to Do (skills, competence, practical
  ability in a variety of settings)
• Learning to Live Together (tolerance, mutual
  understanding, interdependence)
• Learning to Be (personal autonomy
  responsibility, memory, aesthetics, ethics,
  communication physical capacity)

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Corporate UniversitiesStages of Development

• The operational stage an advanced training
  department
• The tactical stage the knowledge backbone of
  the organisation
• The strategic stage the knowledge factory of
  the organisation

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Whither the Public Sector Corporate University?

• The Times January 2005 in an article on corporate
  universities and in response to the question Is
  it all private sector?
• Sore point. The NHS had high hopes for its
  corporate university. But costcutting has meant
  it has had to cancel contracts and is now to
  merge with the Modernisation Agency