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Speaker:

Mr Jonathan Ledger MOID MIQ MCMI

Chief Executive Officer

Global Skills Ledger Limited

The UK TVET Experience

TVET in Action

TVET is about enabling workers to gain the industry skills they need in

order to sustain useful employment

The UK TVET System - simplified

Training ProvidersIn-company, private & public

National

Qualifications

Framework

Quality

Inspections

Funding

ContractsStandards and

frameworks

Develops and delivers curriculum.

Awarding

Organisations

issue certificates

EMPLOYERS

Sector Skills

Councils

Understands Industry

Develops Professional

Job Standards

Enables Career

Progression

Industrial

partnership

Industrial Skills

Strategy / Policy

Training

and assessment

on / off the job

Inspection

results

published

Industry based

training provision

Institute for

Apprenticeships

INDUSTRIAL

STRATEGY AND

DIRECTION

NATIONAL POLICY

QUALITY OF

DELIVERY

NATIONAL

QUALIFICATIONS

FRAMEWORK

GOVERNMENT

SUPPORT

EDUCATION, TRAINING & ASSESSMENT

Develops

National

Qualification

s

Key TVET Stakeholders in UK

Learners

EmployersFurther

education

colleges

Universities

Sector

Skills

Councils

Funding Body Governme

nt

Awarding

Bodies

Private

Training

Providers

Inspection

Agencies

Qualifications

Regulators

Apprenticeship

Body

Government Schools

Employers First

Employers

• Know their own business and define the skills it needs

• Work with others in the industry to articulate the skills needed

• Create employment and training opportunities

• Supervise and provide training and coaching to staff

• Provide technical input to qualifications

and curriculum development

• Work collaboratively on career paths

Simple but effective

Many employers perceive training and

skills as a overly complex distraction they

could do without.

Through strategic engagement

with employers TVET can create

clarity and Simplicity that benefits

all.

TVET Policy Development

Employer

Engagement

Labour Market

Intelligence

Impact

Measurement

Skills

Standards

& Curriculum

Development

Capacity and

Capability Building

Quality

Assurance

• Policy and Targets (Department for Education)

• Link to national Productivity Plan and Industrial Strategy

• Improve vocational path compared to Academic degree

• 3 million Apprentice starts by 2020 (50% increase on last Parliament and 10% of workforce)

• Rules for the System (Institute for Apprenticeships)

• Eligibility of participation

• Overall process and rules design

• Provides budget of £1.5 billion growing to £3 billion

• Finding an Apprenticeship (National Apprenticeship Service)

• Promote Apprenticeships to Employers

• Provide Apprentice and Employer finder website

Government

Sector Skills Councils work to identify and bridge skills gaps, improve

training standards and drive employer investment in skills by:

• Publishing Labour Market Intelligence

• Developing National Occupational Standards

• Developing Apprenticeship Frameworks / Standards

• Providing Apprenticeship Quality Assurance & Certification

• Developing Qualifications and collaborating with Awarding

Organisations to enable Assessment and Certification of

Qualifications

• Collaborating with Training Providers to ensure alignment of

Qualifications; Training of Trainers; delivering Quality Assurance

and Accreditation of Training Provision

Sector Skills Councils

Qualifications regulation

• Set quality criteria for Awarding organisations

• Have a Register of Approved Awarding and Assessment Organisations

• Audit approved Awarding and Assessment Organisations

• Power to remove from the Register

• Organise qualifications against clearly defined principles and characteristics

• Offers public confidence in the quality of qualifications

• Avoids duplication and overlap between qualifications

• Allows users to identify relevant qualifications

• Clarifies progression opportunities

IFA will support employers to uphold the high quality of apprenticeship

standards and be able to respond to the changing needs of business.

Support employer-led reforms

Regulate the quality of apprenticeships

Enable reaching three million apprenticeship starts by 2020

Aims and Impact:

• Ensure high quality standards and assessment plans

• Maintain employer engagement in apprenticeship development and

move these functions away from Government

• IfA to carry out quality assurance functions to support standards and

assessment plans

• Enhance link between the development / content of standards

/assessment plans / the allocation of funding.

Institute for Apprenticeships

• Set quality criteria for organisations that provide vocational training

• Have a Register of Approved Training Providers

• Visit and rigorously audit training providers

• Public report on training providers with suggested improvements

• Power to remove Government funding

Inspection Agency

• Executive agency of Department of Education (DoE)

• Manage the Government’s skills and Education budget

• Set funding rates for each qualification and Apprenticeship

• Incentive payments (young people and small businesses)

• Set and manages funding rules

• Contract with training providers

• Pay training providers

• Collect data on every learner

Funding incentives

Apprenticeship Levy from 2017

Training Provision

Colleges, Private Sector Training Providers and Universities

• Develop Training Curricula

• Paid by Government on performance

• Match Learners with Employers

• Deliver Training (face to face, webinars, distance learning)

• Deliver Continuous Assessment

• Pay for Qualification Testing

TVET in the Workplace

Awarding organisations

• Over 160 Awarding Organisations approved to issue UK National

Qualification Certificates

• One qualification might have more than one Awarding Organisation –

but all are just as valid

• Develops qualifications with SSCs

• Develops assessment methodology with SSCs

• Commercially sells qualifications via training providers. Paid per

qualification taken by a student

• Checks the training providers are delivering to a set quality standard

• Some operate internationally and in many subject areas, some are

very specialised

By Industry, for Industry

Everything

we do is

about

industry

• To understand industry needs

• Develop industry professional benchmarks

• Design & deliver relevant industry training

• Implement industry TVET programmes

• Measure industry impact/outcomes

High Quality TVET Work?

UK Apprenticeship Impact

✔96%

Employers who take on

an apprentice say their

business benefited.

£117kExtra income

earned by

someone who

completes a

Level 3

Apprenticeship

Amount invested

in

Apprenticeships

last year

Return for every

pound that

Government

invests in Apprenticeships

£1 £28

Number of ‘full

Apprenticeships’

has trebled since

2009/10

£1.5 bn

Over

220,000

Workplaces

already offering

Apprenticeships

At least 12

monthsDuration for

Apprenticeships

11 out of 11

Industrial

Strategy sectors

covered by

Trailblazers

New

Higher

Apprenticeships

In occupations like

space engineer

and pilot

68,000Apprenticeships

in smaller

businesses

supported by our

Grant for

Employers

Over

70 sectors

involved in

developing new

Apprenticeships

UK – the TVET partner of choice

Developing an

effective TVET

system need not be

a daunting climb to

reach your ambition.

With UK expertise

and support, we

can help you

achieve success!

UK Partnership creates Best

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Any Questions?

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Thank You

Mr Jonathan Ledger MIOD MIQ MCMI

E: jonathan@globalskillsledger.co.uk

W: http://www.globalskillsledger.co.uk

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