Skills for the Economy. Xxxxx ETB will take a lead role in providing skills for the local, regional and national economy, both for pipeline talent pool supply and for lifelong learning to upskill the existing workforce. Initiatives will include: ― Establish a dedicated Employer Engagement Unit and Strategy as detailed earlier in Section 4.1. ― Continue to work with the South West Regional Skills Forum, focusing on the following sectors: Hospitality & Tourism; Manufacturing & Engineering; Pharma/Biopharma; Construction. ― Review/analysis of career clusters provision, course approvals and curriculum development to match local and national need. ― Skills for Work, evening training, blended learning, part time, tailored and bite size provision to meet the needs of employers and their employees. ― Develop a Marine Skills Training Centre and the Xxxxx ETB Health Sciences Campus and innovative programmes such as astronomy tour guiding and major and minor awards in agriculture as discussed under priority 3 in Section 4.1.. ― Develop apprenticeship and traineeship provision as set out under priority 8 in section 4.1. ― Increased work experience element and emphasis on work ready skills and job placement in PLC provision. ― Expand the Xxxxx ETB RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) procedures that are now in place for the Commis Chef Apprenticeship and suite of tour guiding courses to cover all programmes.
Skills for the Economy. As noted in Section 4.1.2, CDETB will strengthen the Employer Engagement team to support Colleges and Centres to engage with employers and employer representative groups. This will ensure that employers can identify with CDETB as a preferred education and training provider in priority labour market sectors, e.g. Tourism, Hospitality, ICT, Business, Construction, Health Care and Social Care. CDETB has a strong commitment to expanding traineeships, apprenticeships and other work-based learning, apprenticeship and other work- based learning provision, as discussed in section 4.1.3, and it will identify supports needed to research, provide and develop work-based learning opportunities which cater for the needs of employers (OSPs, labour-market research, etc.). In addition, CDETB will: ― Continue to develop partnerships with organisations committed to the promotion and implementation of programmes within the creative arts. ― Enhance work experience programmes and approaches through employer/learner feedback and continue to develop effective relationships with employers/recruitment agencies/Seetec/ etc. to secure work experience and employment opportunities for learners and graduates ― Use labour-market data from SOLAS, the Regional Skills Forum, the DEASP, etc. to ensure that courses respond to current/emerging skills needs. This will support the wider review of existing programmes to ensure that content aligns with skills clusters and industry needs and extend the provision of vendor and industry certified courses such as CISCO. ― Run employer engagement events including targeting specific high employment sectors e.g., health care, construction, ICT. ― Identify employer requirements such as pre-entry to employment programmes, be-spoke training to upskill employees and Skills for Work programmes at levels 3 and 4. ― Expand involvement with Xxxxxxx (international) programmes to create learner work experience and personal learning/development opportunities as well as providing CPD opportunities for teachers. Entrepreneurship modules and courses will also be incorporated into our existing provision.
Skills for the Economy. WWETB has developed recognisable expertise in delivering high quality apprentices and trainees to local and national employers and the economy. To maintain this vision WWETB proposes to: ― Expand the number of apprentices being trained by WWETB by providing additional capacity as well as supporting a broadening of the list of apprenticeships offered in our training centres ― Increase the number of Traineeships being offered, this will be done by ― broadening the variety of traineeships being offered ― developing new traineeships in conjunction with local industry ― converting suitable existing skill training courses to traineeships. ― Support 2016+ apprenticeships by acting as a collaborating provider for a number of apprenticeships including; Accounting Technician, Hairdressing and ICT Associate Professional. WWETB will firm up commitments in this regard during 2018. ― Develop a specific initiative for those in employment (workforce development) through a reconfigured Service to Business (STB) unit. ― We will, in particular, target the needs of SMEs in the south east region. ― The unit will engage with employers on a one- to-one and group basis. ― The unit will service the apprentice needs of employers as well as upskilling and training needs. ― The unit will offer skill needs analysis to employers as well as offering specific responses to their individual and group training needs through existing and new programmes.
Skills for the Economy. DDLETB will contribute to enhancing Skills for the Economy primarily through contributions to targets 1, 5 and 6. Under target 1 DDLETB aims to achieve an additional 19% of learners securing employment from provision which primarily services the labour market. This will be achieved through realignment of some of the courses in PLC colleges and Training Centres to areas more focused on the labour market, and offering new and modified courses (e.g. Airport Business and Operations, Yoga Teaching, Professional cookery, Engineering Technology, Business Studies with International Trade, Cloud Support Professional, Fashion Entrepreneurship and Hospitality and Tourism). We will develop strategies to motivate and support learners to progress to the labour market e.g. learner engagement with employers, guidance etc. As outlined earlier we have focused on building stronger links with employers and hope to expand this work to increase our involvement in workforce development, including traineeships for employed people. For target 5, DDLETB will increase the number of learners securing qualifications in sectors where employment growth/skills needs have been identified by an average of 1320 learners per year. This will be achieved by realignment of courses, new courses and some modular certification (in particular in PLCs for early leavers). To achieve target 6, DDLETB is actively working with employers to develop new traineeships and we plan to significantly increase our provision of traineeship programmes by more than doubling existing provision over 3 years. This will be through developing additional traineeships which will be delivered by Training Centres and FE Colleges for both employed and unemployed people. A number of new traineeships, which meet the criteria laid out by SOLAS, are already in the planning stage including Builders Merchants Retail, Make-Up Artistry, Glazing, Animal Care, Landscape Design, Retail and Hospitality, QA Test Automation Engineer.
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