patrick beasley e-skills uk achieving a globally competitive workforce
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The Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology
Achieving a globallyAchieving a globally competitive IT workforcep
Patrick BeasleyPatrick BeasleyDirector of Learning Services
Creating the skills for the digital economy
Rated Outstanding – Sector Skills Councils Relicensing 2009
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Making economic winnerswinners
Will Hutton - Guardian
“those that encourage and combine a strong academiccombine a strong academicsector with business and technological innovation –technological innovationwill emerge as winners”.
Sep 27th, 2010
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GDP recoveryy
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Role of IT Workforce
To Lead on technologicaltechnological routes to
businessbusinessdevelopmentpand thereforeeconomic growth
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Goals
• Innovation• Capability developmentp y p• Excellence in
achievementachievement• New business models
Organisational strategy• Organisational strategy
Global competitiveness
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Action
1 Equip the IT1. Equip the IT workforce to deliver real businessreal business advantage
2. Increase the role of universities in thisuniversities in this journey
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IT people & DegreesIT people & Degrees
35
40
25
30
35
15
20
25
% IT StaffOther sectors
5
10
15
0Managers Professionals Technicians Assistants
Data : e-skills UK 2010
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& Higher degrees& Higher degrees
35
40
25
30
35
15
20
25
% IT StaffOther sectors
5
10
15
0Managers Professionals Technicians Assistants
Data : e-skills UK 2010
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IT low horizonIT low horizon
Why?• Above average number of graduates enterAbove average number of graduates enter
the workforce at QCF level 6……Th d th i d i t i i t• Then spend their careers doing training at QCF levels 3 and 4?
• Far fewer postgraduate qualifications among IT professionals than otheramong IT professionals than other sectors?
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OpportunityOpportunity
• Raise the level of postgraduate learning • Redress the balance against compared toRedress the balance against compared to
other sectors and professionsM k i ifi t diff t th• Make a significant difference to the performance of IT organisations in the future
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Who?
• Future influencers– Future managersg– Future architects
Future strategists– Future strategists– Future CIOs and board members
People who will shape the future…. People who will shape the future
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When?
• Any time in careery• Career long learning• While working• While working • Geared to individual
potentialpotential
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Type of learningyp g
• In the workplace– Work based learning– New models of
blended learning– Individual learning
contractsE l i l t– Employer involvement
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In SFIA terms
• People at levels 5 – 7 need to have education to support their position of pp psignificant influence
• People at levels 1 4 need to be equipped• People at levels 1 - 4 need to be equipped to perform at a higher level when they reach roles at 5 and beyond
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What will happen?What will happen?
• Stimulate an increase in demand • Universities will raise their engagementUniversities will raise their engagement
with IT employersM t d t l i ti ill b• More postgraduate learning options will be available to the sector
• More linkage with specific IT careers
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Other professionsOther professions
• Medical• EngineeringEngineering • Accounting• Legal
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MedicalMedical
• Medical profession uses postgraduate qualifications to enable career qdevelopment into specialist areas e.g.
Psychiatry– Psychiatry – Oncology– Occupational medicine– Forensic mental health
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EngineeringEngineering
• Like Medicine postgraduate modules are available for career development e.g.p g
• Loughborough University modules P j t t– Project management
– Cost and value management– Managing construction organisations– Estimating and planningEstimating and planning
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AccountingAccounting
• Accounting is regulated and there is a strict requirement for CPDq
• Examples of post graduate level CPDSt t i t d l d hi– Strategic management and leadership
– International accounting– Business information technology
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LegalLegal
• Legal profession is a good parallel because it is a very broad field as is the IT profession
• Masters in Laws or LL.M qualification gives recognised skills to practise particular areas of gLaw by selecting modules
• Queen Mary CollegeQueen Mary College – Over 100 Specialist modules you combine to make a
masters or diplomap
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ITIT
• Lots MSc’s – Few in direct partnership with employers p p p y– Few linked to business and strategy
• Need a better linkage for course purpose in career and organisational development
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The IT DisciplinesThe IT Disciplines
• Do we need a better linkage and signposting of postgraduate study to g p g p g ysupport the disciplines within the IT profession?profession?
• Does the SFIA framework provide the necessary structure to organise learning and more defined career progression?p g
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Example programmeExample programme
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Programme purposeProgramme purpose
• Fast track new entrants into IT • Provides key basis for future influence inProvides key basis for future influence in
organisational success1 L d hi d t ki1. Leadership and team-working2. Business and strategy3. Project and delivery4. Change management4. Change management
– Better contribution quicker
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Employer involvementEmployer involvement• British Airways * • IBM *
IPS *y
• BT • Cabinet Office * • Cancer Research • CarPhone Warehouse *
• IPS *• INQ Mobile *• Lincolnshire Police *• Metropolitan Police *• CarPhone Warehouse
• Centrica *• DCSF *• DfID *
Metropolitan Police • Ministry of Justice *• National Archives• National Grid *
NHS Di t *• DWP *• EDS / HP • FPS *• GCHQ *
• NHS Direct *• NHS Wales• Oracle Consulting • Royal Borough of Kensington• GCHQ
• Home Office *• HMRC *• HM Prison Service *
Royal Borough of Kensington• Sainsbury’s *• SFW • Solution 7 *
S HIS• HM Treasury *• Hounslow PCT
• Sussex HIS• Tata • TfL
* Have bought places on the programme
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Programme Progression
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The visionThe vision
• Raise uptake of postgraduate education in the IT workforce
• Postgraduate education targeted at specific IT careersspecific IT careers
• Set employers needs at the heart of postgraduate courses for IT careers
• Organise postgraduate education using• Organise postgraduate education using SFIA to support career excellence
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The resultThe result
• More competitive UK organisations underpinned by ITp y
• IT careers mapped into disciplines by SFIASFIA
• The IT industry working together to raise the bar on educational attainment for careerscareers