Developing skills for Scotland through regeneration
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Dr Bill HarveyDeputy Director for Learning
and TeachingEmail: [email protected]
Developing skills for Scotland
through regeneration
CILIPS Conference 2008
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Good advice for speakers…..
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“You have a captive audience…”
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“…so please don’t speak for too long…”
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“…and be cheerful.”
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However….
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FE and HE Context
1992 SHEFC - Higher Education 1999 SFEFC - Further Education 2005 single merged Council - SFC SFC budget 2008-09 £1.6 Billion Scotland’s biggest quango 19 HE institutions in Scotland, 43
colleges
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SFC Corporate Plan - Vision
A more dynamic, entrepreneurial and internationally competitive Scotland, whose people are amongst the most skilled and educated of any of our competitors, and whose colleges and universities are world-class contributors to economic, social and cultural development.
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Educational Context
Devolution Lifelong learning Smart successful Scotland 50+% participation rate in HE FE delivers ~30% of HE (HNC/D) Scottish credit & qualifications
framework Small country, large neighbour
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Skills for Scotland (2007)
“Sustainable economic growth”
“Skills development contributes to economic development from which we believe other benefits flow such as social justice, stronger communities and more engaged citizens.”
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Skills strategy - context
Not Leitch No global shortage of HE graduates % with HE qualns > % with school
qualns SSCs will not approve qualifications Key issues - skills utilisation and
productivity
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Productivity Organisational culture Individual autonomy/decision-
making Management and HR practices Capital investment Risk and enterprise Workforce development “Our firms should be ambitious
and demanding users of skills”
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FE/HE role in skills strategy
Relevant, up to date programmes Core and transferable skills Respond to labour market needs Articulation, recognition of prior
learning, credit rating on SCQF, CPD
Knowledge transfer to business
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SFC activities on skills
Institutional employability strategies Knowledge transfer & employer
engagement Enterprise Industry sector analysis Supply and demand studies Learner choice and learner engagement ‘On Track’ longitudinal surveys 2004 &
2007
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Challenges for the tertiary sector
Resources, efficiency, effectiveness Systems and content integration Widening access FE-HE transition Continuous quality improvement A culture of reflective practice Flexible delivery to lifelong learners
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A learner-centred approach?
What do learners want? Diversity of needs IT and knowledge literacy Just in time, just for me Remote, rural, overseas students Employability skills Creating autonomous learners
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Challenges for Libraries
What is a library? Where is a library? When is a library? What do libraries contain? Embedding in institutional L&T
strategy Diversity of user needs
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What will the future be like?“I think there is a world market for about five computers”
Thomas J Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
“No matter what happens, the US Navy is not going to be caught napping”
Frank Knox, Secretary of the US Navy, Dec 4 1941
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist….” Last words of Gen. John B Sedgwick, 1864 (US
Civil War)
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Future trends
Accountability and responsiveness
Managerialism and academic culture
Demographics and new markets Access and inclusion Differentiation within the sector Globalisation
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Questions…..