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What collaboration can achieve

Yolande Burgess, London Councils Young People's Education and Skills

Aim of this workshop

To demonstrate how local government and Higher Education can collaboratively:

• take an evidence-based approach to addressing priorities

• contribute to national as well as local priorities

• consider fully the whole student lifecycle

What we did know

• The shape of education across the 14-19 age range

• The key issues for this age range affecting participation, attainment and progression

• A good understanding of the characteristics of disengaged young people and a sound knowledge of local reengagement activity

• A lot of intelligence on activity for lower achievers to reach level 3 by the age of 19

What we needed to know more about

• Higher Education (HE) intelligence beyond the national statistical releases

• The detail behind the HE journey of young London residents - participation, attainment and progression

• The skills HE was providing compared to the skills the London labour market was seeking

• Information on whether the HE investment was paying off - where our graduates getting good jobs

5 or more A*-C GCSE (including E&M)

Intelligent London 2013 - 2013 GCSE and equivalent results

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

North EastEast MidlandsSouth WestYorkshire and the HumberEast of EnglandNorth WestWest MidlandsSouth EastLondon

2010/11 2011/12 2012/13208

209

210

211

212

213

214

215214.5

209.5

213.1

209.3210.5

London England (state-funded mainstream)

GCE A level and level 3 results

Department for Education A level and other level 3 results in England: academic year 2012 to 2013

Points per student

Points per entry2010/11 2011/12 2012/13

670

680

690

700

710

720

730

712.8

695.1

682.7

728.2

714.3

706.3

London England (state-funded mainstream)

Level 3 at 19 (national)

Level 2 and 3 attainment by young people in England, SFR 13/2013, DfE

Level 3 by 19 (mainstream)

Intelligent London 2013 - Department for Education Attainment by Young People in England Measured Using Matched Administrative Data: Attainment by Age 19 in 2012

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 201230%

35%

40%

45%

50%

55%

60%

65%

East Midlands

East of England

London

North East

South East

South West

West Midlands

Yorkshire and the Humber

Qualifications - Level 4+

Intelligent London 2013 - Population Census 2011

Unemployment 16-24 year olds

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ep 2

008

Oct-Dec

200

8

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Mar 2

009

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n 20

09

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ep 2

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Oct-Dec

200

9

Jan-

Mar 2

010

Apr-Ju

n 20

10

Jul-S

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010

Oct-Dec

201

0

Jan-

Mar 2

011

Apr-Ju

n 20

11

Jul-S

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Oct-Dec

201

1

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Mar 2

012

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n 20

12

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Oct-Dec

201

2

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13

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

London unemployment rate - all 16-24 year olds UK unemployment rate - all 16-24 year olds

London unemployment rate - 16-24 excluding full-time students UK unemployment rate - 16-24 year excluding full-time students

Greater London Authority London Labour Market Indicators - youth unemployment September 2013

Skills shortages

UKCES Skills Survey 2011 proportion of establishments with a skill-shortage vacancy by region

“Drowning problems in an ocean of information

is not the same as solving them”

Ray E. Brown

Project background and collaboration

• Good local research undertaken by Newham and the University of East London showed a potential way forward

• A partnership approach - offering the ‘scale’ of London provided researchers with:– the opportunity to work on city-wide analysis

– sufficient scale to deliver robust information from the HESA Student Return and the Destinations of Leavers from HE Survey

Developing the ‘London story’

• Analysis of progression to university of 18-24 year old London residents in 2011/12 – full/part-time, first/undergraduate degree study (UK universities)

• Time-series analysis showing trends across five years

• Outcomes from HE study - degree classifications and post-degree destinations, including employment and salary range

Disseminating project outcomes

• Wide distribution of the regional report and borough reports

• Political briefing sent out to 1,861 elected local councillors – Does Higher Education investment pay off for young Londoners?

• Launch event December 2013 at UEL attended by 50 plus professionals from local authorities, further and higher education

• Action on Access-UUK-OFFA-HEFCE conference today

The research bonus

• A comprehensive London-wide and borough-level analysis of the HE journey of young London residents: a regional and local evidence base

• A means of engaging London’s political leaders into the HE world

• A ‘line of sight’ through education from age 14 to 24: the relationship between different stages of education and pathways to employment

• Developing a more refined understanding of the relationship between skills and the London labour market: one in every five young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training; by 2022 this will have cost the economy nearly £28 billion

The Higher Education Journey ofyoung London residents

http://members.londoncouncils.gov.uk/London%2520Councils/TheHigherEducationjourneyofyoungLondonresidentsFIN.pdf