BACKGROUND

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BACKGROUND

• Top 10 UK GFE by size - 40m
• 6th largest HE in FE 1,500 FTE
• 50 of income not LSC (sector significant)
• Top 5 Ofsted report for GFE nationally
• CoVE (Centre of Vocational Excellence for
  Customer Service, Manufacturing and Building
  Services
• Specialist Nautical Campus - international
• National Gaming Academy with North Warwickshire
  and Greenwich
• Blackpool 13th most deprived in England
• Significant Art and Design HE reputation 400
  FTE traditional 18 year old

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GROWTH IN HE

• Decline since 1999 FT HE
• Last 2 years growth with new FDs
• Construction and Engineering still resistant -
  like HNDs - but some movement (skills not
  thinking)
• Soft FDs very popular (Comms at Work) the
  hankered after a degree market but perceive
  cannot fit around lifestyle. FT is not 37 hrs per
  week
• Then the Hons top up cross sell

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THE EMPLOYER DIMENSION

• Obviously mandatory for new FD development
• Employer support tends to be the larger
  organisations within a sector (then the rest
  follow) e.g. BAE, Leyland Truck
• FE well placed in this area. T2G versus community
  agenda and used to high volume placements and
  delivery
• HEI opportunity in the post-graduate progression
  and income stream/ ticks WP boxes

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FD AWARDING POWERS

• BFC cant rule anything out risk
• Lancaster University major partner and the brand
  relationship and reputation very effective e.g.
  the BAE contract was competitive with another
  college but effectively between Lancaster brand
  and another HEI.
• Brand value more important for major employers
  top up accreditation and post-graduate
  opportunities?

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KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

• Not significant on college radar but aware of
  significance within Lancaster and the college
  benefits (volunteer unit, web developer)
• HE in FE role could be wider but brokerage more
  interesting. FE relationships with employers vast
  and active at the coal face
• Exciting mentoring by Lancaster Volunteer Unit
  (KTP) with failed Apprentices another world
  out there

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PARTNERSHIP WORKING

• Extend our reach whilst playing to our strengths
• Ford all Apprentices north of Birmingham,
  Loughborough potential feeding Hons Ford
  programme
• NGA the existing gaming market large if provide
  a national delivery foot-print regardless of
  resort casino
• BAE Systems and ECITB international potential
  feeding 6 or 7 key university partners
  post-graduate

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BAE SYSTEMS

• Attrition of high caliber Project Management
  graduates wheres my plane?
• Grow their own 5 year bespoke FD to BSc 1 day
  per week
• 18K to 28K and no fees or loans
• Talk of this as the future cultural engineering
  as well as skills development
• Undergraduate Trainee Scheme
• Significant growth potential as a model
• CEL national exemplar research changing profile
  of undergraduate growing up!

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TENSIONS

• HEI personality types as partners Lancaster
  (favourite uncle), UCLAN (ambitious cousin with a
  fast car)
• FD awarding powers the relationship, the
  credibility
• What are we?/ Confusion!
• 14-16 school
• Private training provider (apprenticeships)
• Technical college
• Sixth form college
• University (Open University, youth halls,
  research, academic, vocational poly proposition,
  in company delivery, mature PT)
• Adult PT college widening participation
• Employer development consultancy

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BREAK UP THE OFFER

• 10m university campus centralised offer in town
  centre (regeneration catalyst)
• Halls of residence
• Separately branded and positioned (St Andrews on
  the beach, Everyone knows your face and
  probably your name)
• Management development suite (specific curriculum
  department underpins most voc HE curriculum
  therefore collaborate between areas)
• The aspirational yet achievable top of the
  mountain

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A COMMUNICATION FUTURE

• FE web presences were at best average before Web2
  (see what are we?)
• Focus not on electronic presentation but
  electronic conversation
• Drupal CMS feeding web but also internal document
  management. The backbone of Yahoo
• Helps feed Moodle as VLE serious learning
• Moodle links with Elgg for social learning and
  enrichment (your lecturer in the SU bar)
• Elgg potential for involving parents, employers,
  peer to peer staff, peer to peer student, feeder
  high schools and colleges.
• Grow our own relationships from the primary
  sector up
• Brighton University, Leeds University, New
  Zealand, California consortium of schools, Open
  University
• THANKYOU the meaning of KTP for me

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