skills, employability and enterprise: brief post election analysis dominic passfield, policy and...
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Skills, Employability and Enterprise: Brief Post Election Analysis
Dominic Passfield, Policy and Projects Manager, University Alliance
Source: HESA HE Statistics for UK 2011/12, HESA (2013) and HEBCI 2011/12
University Alliance19 universities
550k students (20% total)
25% of all UK students on STEM courses
46% of all sandwich courses
38%of courses accredited by PSRBs
27%of new academic staff directly from industry
44%of graduate start-ups turnover and jobs
Skills, Employability and Enterprise: Problems
NameJob title, University Alliance
Students
• Am I buying a job with my degree?
• How do I stand out?
• What is a “graduate career”?
• Social & cultural capital
• Hourglass labour market: Level 4+
• Routes to upper technical and professional skills
• Cost of HE
• Social mobility
Universities
• Students demanding more
• Engaging lots of employers
• Measuring added value
• Economic circumstances
• Reduction in part time numbers
Employers
• Accessing talent
• Job-ready graduates
• Diversity – but how to sift?
• SMEs / Midcaps ability to engage
Government
Skills, Employability and Enterprise: Solutions
NameJob title, University Alliance
Students
• Preparation – throughout university
• Graduate start ups – new ideas about success
• Growth of enterprise societies
Government
• Sub degree level qualifications
• Measuring added value: SBEE bill
• Industrial Strategy
• Removal of Student Number Controls
Universities
• In-course opportunities
• University wide incentives
• In-work opportunities
• Enterprise Education and Entrepreneurial Effectiveness*
Employers
• Business case to get involved
• New ways of sifting
• Building multi-layered relationships with universities*
NameJob title, University Alliance
Dowling ReviewBusiness / University research collaborations
Nurse Review Supporting research in the most effective ways
Future of HEIF HEFCE’s review of Knowledge Exchange funding
Government plans for growth -Science and Innovation Strategy -Industrial Strategy
The Wilson Review University-Business Collaboration
Enterprise for all The relevance of enterprise in education
Discussions and Consultations
Job Ready
In-depth interviews with small and large employers
Start up: a storyGraduates who are turning their business ideas into a reality and a toolkit to support anyone wanting to do the same
University Alliance Case Studies
University Alliance:
Driving economic growth through employer engaged STEM provision
Aim: Exploring examples of employer-engaged STEM provision across the HE sector
Publication: July 2015
Quality Assurance Agency:
Employability initiatives: what works?
Aim: To evaluating the impact of employability initiatives in universities and colleges
Publication: September 2015
Research Projects
Money and Resource• Emergency budget / Comprehensive
Spending Review• Tuition fees• Future of KE funding, including HEIF Growth and Retraction: • Alternative progression routes • Lift of student number controls • Part time / Adult learners (wfd)
New thinking• Nurse / Dowling reviews • HEFCE’s “Learning Gain” pilots • More open data• Skills devolution • Some employers diversifying
recruitment• Opinions from UKCES / CBI etc.
What's next?
