Cooperation between higher education institutions and businesses

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Cooperation between higher education institutions
and businesses

• by
• Marianne van Loenhout
• Policymaker at Dutch Royal Metaalunie
• loenhout_at_metaalunie.nl

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Agenda

• Royal Metaalunie
• Training Fund OOM
• Situation in the Netherlands
• Associate degree in the Netherlands
• Metaalunie and cooperation
• Metaalunie and Associate degree
• Investigation of needs
• Discussion

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Royal Metaalunie

• Royal Dutch Association for small and medium
  sized companies in the metal industry
• gt 13,000 members 140,000 employees
• employees per member 1 100, average of 15
• Companies are engaged in
• Construction
• Mechanical engineering
• Machining
• Agricultural mechanisation, etc.
• Promotion of collective and individual interests

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Training Fund OOM

• Training, Education and Development Fund for the
  Metal Industry Sector
• Fund filled by wage payment (0,6 ) and european
  subsidies
• PTT (max 375 euro pp py, max 50) and LWB (max
  2000 pp py, max 2 years)
• Compensation for internships, also for higher
  education (max 125 pp pw)
• Project describing illustrations of higher
  educated professionals in the metal sector

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Situation in the Netherlands
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Associate Degree in the Netherlands

• Shorter Higher Education. We call it the
  Associate Degree
• Intermediate level (5) in the EQF
• It is still a pilot, so only certificate and no
  formal degree yet. 2010? More and more Ads
  started.
• Extra step in higher education
• Based on needs of labour market
• Part of a bachelor, 120 ects

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Metaalunie and the cooperation

• Associate degree
• Knowledge institutions like the laser-application
  centre with a university
• Finding employers for internships
• Knowledge transfer
• Some examples

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Metaalunie and the Ad

• Interested in Ad because of
• Growing need of higher educated people
• More influence in higher education
• Shorter period(s) of education
• Makes metal industry more interesting
• This happened so far
• Investigation of needs of the labour market
• Agreement with some higher education institutions
• More Ad programs

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Investigation of needs

• Programs needed for
• Management, businessmen
• Production/project leading in engineering
• Commercial technical functions
• Intellectual level is needed (problem solving,
  communication skills, etc.), not 4 years of
  higher education.
• Why now? Quality
• Developments in the market
• Technological developments (ICT)
• Cooperation with / outsourcing to other companies
• Professionalising
• Why now? Quantity
• Job vacancies
• Retirement
• Company sales

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What do we want?

• Flexibility
• Different target groups
• young students from vocational secondary
  education (and from general secondary education)
• employees with several years of experience
• Assessments for employees
• Tailor-made education
• E-learning or other solutions for spreading the
  education throughout the country

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Some difficulties

• With autonomy of institutions
• Promotion of Ad versus need of employees right
  now
• Members not very interested in LLL
• Short term vision
• Afraid of loosing their employees to their
  neighbours
• No possibility for function growth within the
  company

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In short

• Focus on maximum flexibility
• More interaction with the industry
• Content of the educational program (i.e.
  techniques, competences, case studies)
• Organisation (i.e. evening study, tailor-made
  education, pr)
• Exchange of people and knowledge

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Examples
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Discussion

• When more Ads are granted, how do we cope with
  that as an employers organisation? Examples?
• How are employers organisations involved in
  (shorter) higher education in your countries ?

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• Thank you for your attention.
• More information
• loenhout_at_metaalunie.nl