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Title: Adult Learner Accounts


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Adult Learner Accounts
Jonathan Dalton
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Background
  • The Government White Paper, FURTHER EDUCATION,
    RAISING SKILLS, IMPROVING LIFE CHANCES, (March
    2006) stated that
  • A programme of learner accounts will be
    trialled, focused on helping people gain Level 3
    qualifications.
  • We know that accounts can have a powerful
    effect in motivating learners, creating a sense
    of ownership, and attracting them back into
    learning.

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Background
  • The Leitch Review of Skills Prosperity for all
    in the Global Economy World Class Skills
    (2006) recommended increasing choice and giving
    individuals real purchasing power by routing all
    public funding for adult vocational skills in
    England through Adult Learner Accounts or Train
    to Gain mechanisms

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Aims of Adult Learner Accounts
  • mechanism for engaging and empowering individuals
  • offering learners a wider choice of full Level 3
    learning, opening up provision to greater
    competition
  • supporting learners in making the right learning
    choices by better access to information, advice
    and guidance (IAG) on learning, work and careers
  • raising awareness among individuals of the
    support, costs and contributions that the state,
    employers and individuals are making through
    learner account statements.

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Benefits to learners
  • For learners
  • more choice with access to independent IAG
  • greater understanding of the contributions of
    the state, employer and the learner
    themselves
  • support with progression ALAs can be used
    to support successive periods of learning
  • providers better able to respond to their
    needs
  • supporting the development of a culture of
    learning and the value of training

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Benefits to providers
  • For providers
  • additional money within the region for L3
    learning
  • competitive tendering
  • support to engage and retain learners
  • opportunity to help shape national policy
  • well placed to learn lessons in advance of
    wider roll-out

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How ALAs will work
  • Adult Learner Accounts (ALAs) are virtual
    accounts detailing the total funding paid by all
    stakeholders towards an individuals learning
  • provide greater transparency and so give adult
    learners greater understanding of their funding,
    potentially empowering and energising
  • funding follows the learner
  • individuals will be issued regular bank style
    statements detailing the total funding and support

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How ALAs will work
  • three entry routes via learndirect, nextstep or
    to learning provider
  • payment will be through existing payment systems
    with additional support for providers who dont
    currently use this system
  • normal funding rates for full L3

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The trials
  • trials from August 2007 to July 2009
  • two trial areas East Midlands and South East
    Region
  • Year 1 target 4000 ALAs
  • the areas chosen provide the opportunity to trial
    accounts in a range of different settings and
    targeting different categories of learners. The
    proposed areas cover different parts of the
    country and different sized areas with varying
    needs (e.g. deprived inner city and rural areas)

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Information, advice guidance
  • initial eligibility checks and data capture will
    done through learndirect (eligible learners
    receive info pack and details are entered on to
    LAMs)
  • most learners will be receive initial IAG through
    learndirect
  • anyone who needs additional advice prior to
    choosing a course, can also use the services of
    nextstep providers
  • IAG will also be offered by learning providers
    before, during (if required) and towards the end
    of the programme

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Learner Accounts Management System (LAMS)
  • bespoke system - designed solely to administer
    the pilot programme
  • user friendly, easily navigable, jargon free
    (accessed through LSC Provider Gateway
  • comprises an IT system call centre
  • record and track the funding of an individuals
    learning programme and produce their financial
    statements
  • LAMS will issue ALA bank style statements on an
    individual basis between 2 and 3 times annually
    or as required

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The ALA statement
  • issued 2/3 times a year (or on request)
  • bank style
  • details all funding contributions (LSC, Learning
    Provider Learner)
  • manually triggered, but dispatched centrally

13
Marketing and communications
  • Target Audiences
  • Adults aged 19
  • Currently in learning who can progress to Level 3
  • New eligible learners
  • Providers
  • Employers

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Marketing and communications
  • letter to current Level 2 learners providing
    information on Level 3 entitlement, entitlement
    to ALAs and/or ALGs May
  • website for learners, providers and employers
    May
  • learner fulfilment pack, provided via learndirect
    May
  • PR activity June/July
  • Provider collateral material including leaflets,
    posters, postcards, e-newsletters, press ad
    templates June
  • Provider workshops on-going briefings
  • Employers in SE and EM

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Key measures of success
  • number of ALAs opened
  • increased Learner Satisfaction
  • increased Provider Satisfaction
  • increased Level 3 Achievement Rate
  • L3 Learners - Receive better info on choice
    funding can access IAG when needed feelings of
    empowerment
  • providers understand and operate the processes
    which support ALAs
  • new providers come to the market at L3 and view
    ALAs as positive method of empowering individuals
    in learning
  • value for money and sustainable
  • LSC/DFES Robust systems operate effectively and
    efficiently and so inform future roll-out

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