NATIONAL SKILLS PRIORITIES. The Provider should take account of both local and national skills needs when developing the curriculum offer.
NATIONAL SKILLS PRIORITIES. In April 2023, the Department for Education released a list of national skills priorities, which will be addressed within this accountability statement. These sectors are: • Construction • Manufacturing • Digital and Technology • Health and Social Care • Haulage and Logistics • Engineering • Science and Mathematics THE LANCASHIRE CONTEXT LANCASHIRE 2050 – EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS The Lancashire Local Authority Leaders recently launched Lancashire 2050, which sets out shared ambitions for the future of Lancashire against eight priorities, including employment and skills. The Lancashire Skills and Employment Board brings together industry and education, skills and employment providers and local authorities, and is responsible for driving forward the employment and skills theme in the locality. The Board feeds into both the board of the Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the Local Authorities Lancashire Leaders group, giving both an economic and inclusive lens to the priorities which are articulated in the local skills strategy, the Lancashire Skills and Employment Strategic Framework. The framework is underpinned by a robust evidence base of local labour market intelligence. This base is shared with the colleges to inform curriculum planning, including Government data sets and novel data, such as real time insights into vacancies and LinkedIn profiles. The Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub, the strategic body which supports the work of the Board, works in partnership with the Xxxxxxxx of Commerce who are leading on the Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP), so that the LSIP adds value to existing intelligence, providing additional insights from employers directly. There is a strong partnership approach in Lancashire with The Lancashire Colleges (TLC) group working in partnership with the LEP, the Lancashire Local Authorities, the Skills Hub and the Xxxxxxxx of Commerce, with the colleges working collegiately to solve the skills challenges in the local economy. The Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub produces a suite of excellent Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) data sets. The College has utilised these data sets since 2017 to inform its Strategic Plan and curriculum offer; specific reference to this will be made later in the Accountability Statement as to how this LMI data will inform and shape plans for 2023/24.
NATIONAL SKILLS PRIORITIES. The College should take account of both local and national skills needs when developing the curriculum offer.
NATIONAL SKILLS PRIORITIES. On 15 April 2023, the government published its national skills priorities. This identified key curriculum areas where recruitment needs are suspected to be particularly acute in coming years. • Construction • Manufacturing • Digital and Technology • Health and Social Care • Haulage and Logistics • Engineering • Science and Mathematics • It also asks providers to prioritise a small number of high-quality programmes with a proven track record of delivering good outcomes for learners (T levels, skills bootcamps and apprenticeships) • It recognises that sixth form colleges are more focused on academic provision and will not necessarily be involved in more vocationally focused programmes, but asks us to consider how we provide an offer that enables students to progress in priority areas • xxxxx://xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx.xx/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/11496 95/DfE_accountability_agreement_guidance April_2023_FINAL.pdf The destination map for Xxxxx Xxxxxxx College groups the university outcomes for our students by broad curriculum area. Our largest curriculum area is biological sciences, with 10.9% of students progressing to courses in these areas. Performance is particularly strong across the national priority areas with 44.5% of university places being in STEM courses. We can also look at how our progression rates to different courses compares to progression in other sixth form colleges. Business and Administrative studies [348] Mass Communication and Documentation [86] Linguistics, Classics and related subjects [117] European Languages, Literature and related subjects [65] Eastern, Asiatic, African, American and Australasian… 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% National College Students from Xxxxx Xxxxxxx College are twice as likely as students elsewhere in the sixth form college sector to progress to Medicine and Dentistry, and progress to vocational pathways in science (Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Science, Nursing, Midwifery and other subjects allied to medicine) in significantly higher numbers than are found in other colleges.
