ILT Strategies in the Learning and Skills Era

March 2001

Overview

• The LSC and its mission

• Funding and data collection

• ILT strategic implications for

colleges

Learning to Succeed1 April 2001

LSC:47 LLSCs and ALI

FEFC(9 regional offices)

68 TECs& TSC

Vision for the LSC

“The Learning and Skills Council should make a significant contribution to upskilling the nation, increasing the employability of individuals, and securing the competitiveness of the UK…”

David BlunkettSecretary of State for Education and Employment

John Harwood - Our Goals

• Increase participation

• Improve achievement

• Encourage non-participating individuals to take up learning

• Improve quality

Our Remit

Young People: Achieve at least a level 2 qualification

Adults: Increase the demand for learning

Build on the work of the Skills Task Force

Raise standards

How?

A comprehensive approach to bring together

all strands of post-16 education including

schools, colleges, work-based training

organisations and adult learning into:

a single funding and planning system

at both national and local level

ILT Investment• Estimated colleges’ expenditure 1999-

2000– £ 170+ million!

• Includes £ 20 million from central funding

• Standards fund

Central FE ILT Funding 2001-2002

£ million

Direct to colleges 25

Networking services 11

Materials, information, etc. 6

Total 42

ILT Funding 2001-2002

• Local learning materials £7,200

• MLE software licences up to £20,000

• IT equipment up to £22,000

• LAN infrastructure up to £20,000

Account for by July 2002

Change Factors for 2002-2004

• Student and staff pressures for more/better IT

• Dramatic rise in internet traffic

• Growing demands for (expensive) learning materials

Central ILT Funding 2002-2004

£ million

• 2002-2003 xx

• 2003-2004 yy

Announcement in ????

Funding e-learning 2002-2004

• Fund learners (not programmes)

• Vary with size of programme

• Recognise different programmes costs

• Recognise disadvantage

Data Collection 2001-2002• ISR being converted to ILR from 2000-01

• Contain around 80 fields - 10 exclusively work

based learning (WBL)

• In 2001-02– ACL pilot

– eligibility changes affect Qualifications Database

– stable Learner Information Suite

Data Collection 2002-2003

• Consultation

• Feasibility study

• Destination data feasibility study

New Sector - New World

Pivotal role for e-learning

• Every college a beacon

• Every college a centre of excellence

• White paper implications

Strategic implications for colleges -

Working with the Local LSC

• Planning

• Development

• Contracts

• Service delivery

• Quality improvement

• Financial propriety

• Local learning partnerships

Strategic implications for colleges -

Use e-learning as a driver to:

– increase skills levels

– raise standards

– improve recruitment and retention

– make FE life fun for all learners

– explode e-learning into the community

Strategic implications for colleges -

Collaboration

• Driven by education considerations not by technology

• Local learning partnerships

• Local learning materials development

• National collaboration in specialist areas

• Share ILT strategies?

• Common staff development - Standards Fund?

Synthesis

• e-learning at the centre of college and community life

• the college as a real learning hub for the community

• “The future is bright - the future is e-learning”

and so to