The Leitch Review: challenges and implications for Wales

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The Leitch Review challenges and implications
for Wales
FE Essential Skills Managers Network All Wales
Schools Network Key Skills Experts Panel Key
Skills Update October 2008
Kim Clark and Jeff Moses Senior Key Skills and
Convergence Managers Department for Children,
Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills

• Steve Marshall
• Director
• Department of Education, Lifelong Learning and
  Skills
• Welsh Assembly Government

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Agenda - morning

• 1000 Welcome and KSSPC update - Kim Clark
• 1010 Essential Skills Wales Update - Mali
  Davies, Head of Key, Basic and Entry Level
  qualifications, DCELLS
• 1030 The Estyn Key Skills Remit Una
  Connolly Estyn
• 1100 e-skills UK
• Update on the Welsh Baccalaureate and IT   -
  Peter Sishton
• Developments on the ITQ - Genny Dixon
• 1200 Key Skills through the Skillbuild
  programme at Yale Bethan Parry Rogerson
• 1230 -130 LUNCH

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Agenda - afternoon

• 130 Education for Sustainable Development and
  Global Citizenship (ESDGC) Toolkit for WBL
  Jane Ellis DCELLS
• 200 Key Skills and ESDGC example
  portfolio Sue Morgan Jones, Arfon Dwyfor
  Training
• 220 Key Skills Resource update and
  development - Karen Ford and Matthew Geary,
  NGFL Cymru
• 300 Welsh Baccalaureate and WBL update
• 330 Plenary
• Next meeting 27th January 2009
• Note that the KSEP can Pilot the AON/IOLP
  e-portfolio

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• Welcome
• Roundtable

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Transforming Education and Training Provision in
Wales

• Transforming Education and Training Provision
  in Wales was released on
• September 10th. The full policy document can be
  downloaded at
• http//new.wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills
  /publications/guidance/transformingprovisionwales/
  ?langen

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Transforming Education and Training Provision in
Wales

• The aim is to establish a post-16 education and
  training system that will better cater for the
  needs of all learners and demands of employers
• The policy relates to post-16 provision, but we
  would be open to discussions with those local
  authorities who wish to develop proposals to link
  pre- and post-16 transformation
• Policy implementation is not through a
  "one-size-fits-all" approach.  Consequently, the
  framework that is non-prescriptive  and this
  allows stakeholders to put forward their own
  plans to make significant changes to post-16
  provision, based on local needs and demands.  For
  this reason the Webb consortium model is not
  universally being universally prescribed
• The document is not a consultation document 
  consultation was provided via the StWfW earlier
  in the year
• Response to the policy is not optional it
  requires all providers and provider managers to
  support the transformation policy by planning and
  implementing change to secure significant
  improvements for all learners
• Timelines are ambitious (Strategic Outline
  Programmes are required by January 2009) partly
  in response to many stakeholders already setting
  themselves ambitious plans to reshape post-16
  learning delivery   and partly because the
  status quo will not deliver the skills required
  for life in the 21st Century and
• DCELLS is taking forward a number of activities
  to support providers and provider managers in
  successfully responding to the policy.  This
  involves provider and provider manager seminars
  in October and one-to-one meetings with local
  strategic leaders  to discuss proposals, issues
  and concerns.

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Key Skills Achievements In Wales 2006/2007

• Further Education 49,432
• WBL 51,385
• Schools 29,188
• Total 130,0005

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Achievements on WBL Skill Build programmes 2006/07

• Key Skills 20,140
• Adult Literacy 1,495
• Adult numeracy 1,735

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WBQ - Key Skills Achievement at Foundation Level

• Key Skills Total Pass Schools College
• ()2007 in
• Brackets
• Application of Number 62(59) 71 60
• Communication 81(88) 87 79
• ICT 75(76) 83 73
• Working with Others 62(78) 28 70
• Problem Solving 43(48) 63 38
• IOLP 53(75) 23 60
• 14 candidates claimed a proxy for IT
• Source Gavin Thomas, Fforwm

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WBQ - Key Skills Achievement at Intermediate Level

• Key Skill Total College
• Level 1 2 3 1 2 3
• AON 47 53 - 53 47 -
• Comms 14 86 (1) 15 85 (1)
• IT 24 76 (2) 21 79 (1)
• WWO 27 73 (4) 23 77 (1)
• PS 52 48 (4) 55 45 (1)
• IOLP 52 48 (2) 23 77 (1)

Source Gavin Thomas, Fforwm
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WBQ - KS Achievements at Advanced Level

• Key Skill Sitting L2/L3 Colleges
• AON L2 92.5 94.9
• AON C3 7.5 5.1
• Comms L2 7.9 13.9
• Comms L3 92.1 86.1
• ICT L2 79.4 79.6
• ICT L3 20.6 20.4
• WWO L2 4.6 8.1
• WWO L3 95.4 91.9
• PS L2 46.4 37.2
• PS L3 53.6 62.8
• IOLP L2 9.8 15.1
• IOLP L3 91.2 84.9
• Source Gavin Thomas, Fforwm

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National Comparators for Further Education and
Work Based Learning, 2006/07

• The key points from the latest release are
• Overall success rates were 60 in FE and 65 in
  WBL.
• Just under 50 of learners leaving Modern
  Apprenticeship (MA) and Foundation Modern
  Apprenticeship (FMA) programmes in 2006/07
  achieved their full apprenticeship framework. FMA
  success rates were consistently higher than those
  for MAs, with the majority of subject areas
  exceeding the current Welsh Assembly Government
  contractual requirement of 50 framework success.
  
• There was considerable variation in outcomes
  across subject areas. In FE learning activity
  success rates varied from 38 to 76, while in
  WBL analysis of the key measure of framework
  success shows outcomes as low as 26 and as high
  as 62.

http//new.wales.gov.uk/statsdocs/post16ed/sdr106-
2008.pdf?langen
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Comparators

• Data underpinning the 2006/2007 performance
  measures will be included in WAG, DCELLS online
  benchmarking tool
• www.tribalbenchmarking.co.uk/wales/default.aspx

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WBL providers involved in the Benchmarking Pilot

• Arfon Dwyfor Training Ltd Aspiration Training
  Ltd
• Cambrian Training Company Cardiff ITEC
• Network Training Services Ltd North Wales
  Training
• Protocol Skills PRP Training Ltd
• South Wales Assessment Training Services Ltd
• SportTrain Wales Ltd Tydfil Training Consortium
  Ltd
• Vale of Glamorgan Training Association ACO
  Training
• Acorn Learning Solutions Action for Employment
• Construction Industry Training Board Focus on
• League Football Education Learnkit Ltd
• Newport Gwent Enterprise Professional
  Technical
• Rathbone Training Talk Training
• Torfaen CBC Wrexham ITEC

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Benchmarking

• The key benefits that underpin the benchmarking
  project include
• The provision of a web based self assessment tool
  that facilitates diagnostic analysis and supports
  decision-making for providers.
• A tool which enables providers to learn from best
  practice to enhance their own processes and drive
  improvements in quality and value for money
  thereby contributing to a culture of
  self-improvement amongst providers.
• A tool which enables providers to make
  comparisons both within and outside of Wales
  establishing an understanding of the relationship
  between cost and quality in each sector.
• The opportunity to enhance the culture of
  collaboration between colleges, schools and work
  based learning providers. This will strengthen
  the learning network, build capacity and optimise
  internal resource allocation.
• contact the Welsh Assembly Government Project
  Team on 01443 663926 email post16benchmarkingh
  elp_at_wales.gsi.gov.uk

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Project to develop Learning Delivery National
Occupational Standards

• LLUK
• Development of the UK National Occupational
  Standards in Delivery, building on the work which
  led to the production of the Professional
  Standards for Tutors, teachers  Trainers in
  Wales.

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Objectives

• To develop Learning Delivery National
  Occupational Standards (LDNOS)
• Use LDNOS to agree common ground across the UK
  nations, which will enable the transfer of skills
  whilst recognising key national differences
  through existing and pending Professional
  Standards
• Produce a UK wide qualifications map indicating
  the barriers to transferring skills across the
  nations
• For more information http//www.ukstandards.org.u
  k/

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'Slash Training at Your Peril'

• Warn Business Bosses - England Press Release
• In an open letter published in national
  newspapers today (Thursday), some of the UK's top
  business people including Sir Mike Rake, Chairman
  of BT group and the UK Commission for Employment
  and Skills, Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman of Marks
  Spencer and Business in the Community, Mervyn
  Davies, Chairman of Standard Chartered plc and
  Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI,
  together with Brendan Barber, General Secretary
  of the TUC, urge employers to sustain or even
  increase their investment in training, saying
  "Now is precisely the time to keep investing in
  the skills and talents of our people.  It is the
  people we employ who will get us through.  When
  markets are shrinking and order books falling, it
  is their commitment, productivity and ability to
  add value that will keep us competitive. 
  Investing now in building new skills will put us
  in the strongest position as the economy
  recovers.
• http//www.ukces.org.uk/Default.aspx?page4659
• UKCES The UK Commission for Employment and Skills

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Key Skills Resources

• Key Skills in Wales www.dysg.org.uk
• Wales Key Skills E-learning materials
  www.e-dysg.org.uk
• NGFL Cymru
• http//www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng/index-new.htm
• QCA Key Skills Standards and Guidance
  http//www.qca.org.uk/qca_6551aspx
• Key-line - registration is no longer required
• http//www.keyskillssupport.net/search/Resource-2
  7547.aspx
• All Learning for Work resources also re-branded
  and available on Gateway to Excellence website
• http//excellence.qia.org.uk/search.aspx?osearch
  ssQUERY5Bprovider3A108AND28KeySkillsresou
  rces295Dsitetlp
• Key Skills 4U materials
• http//flt.excellence.qia.org.uk/document.asp?id
  261pageno
• Pedagogy materials
• http//teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/tlp/pedagogy
  /introducingthe1/introducingthe1/index.html
• Awarding Bodies also have key skills resources

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For Information

• Kim Clark Senior and Jeff Moses Key Skills and
  Convergence Managers
• DCELLS, Department for Children, Education,
  Lifelong Learning and Skills, Welsh Assembly
  Government
• Address Ty'r Llyn, Clos Llyn Cwm, Swansea
  Enterprise Park, Swansea SA6 8AH
• Tel [phone]
• Transferable Skills in
• Further Education kim.clarke_at_Wales.GSI
  .gov.uk
• Work based learning providers kim.clarke_at_Wales.GS
  I.gov.uk
• Schools and Welsh Bac centres jeff.moses_at_wales.gsi
  .gov.uk
• Professional Development http//www.e-dysg.org.u
  k