Career Development
Skilling The feature
Future choices
Priority skills challenges Major adult skills shortages and gaps Literacy and numeracy – basic skills Generic, transferable skills for employability Mathematical competence – whole workforce Broad Intermediate skills – esp. Levels 3 and 4 Specialist ICT skills Engaging employers New labour market information system Strengthened Sector Skills Councils Skills Foresight programmes at local level Provider out-reach and communication Urgent ICT campaigns and skills programmes Training & best practice on work organisation Training & development for managers Work – the new classroom Major promotion of lifelong learning Responsibility shared – employer, employee, state Information, advice, guidance, training for firms Funding regime more learner/demand centered Local workforce development plans by LSCs Local employer learning networks – for SMEs Out-reach & peripatetic provision in employers Motivating adult learners Learning evangelism’ not the answer Acknowledge system, not individual, failure Measure and disseminate the returns to learning Promotion must be very personal and local Campaign/s from peers and exemplars Learning in/near the workplace Qualifications an important motivator Funding an important but secondary issue Flexible learning Importance of informal and personal learning Flexible by time, pace, place and learning style Particularly at or near the workplace Bite-size – but appropriately! Unitized qualifications – mix and match capacity Certification at any point Wide range of subject areas, including IT ‘Embedded’ basic skills – where possible Fastest growing area of learning On-demand capability – workplace availability Potential as community resource New standards required before full exploitation Internet and interactive TV growth supportive - but Danger of digital divide Will it simply reach the converted? Learning methods Key skills dependent on learning processes Competence & knowledge based learning likewise On-line learning – opportunities & challenges New developments in brain science New institute for learning methods needed Local innovation & development essential Best practice sharing locally, regionally, globally
Priority skills challenges
Engaging employers
Work – the new classroom
Motivating adult learners
Flexible learning
Learning methods