Building for the Future Teesside University – New Approaches to Workforce Development 3 November, 2011

Workforce Development ‘We need to develop radical approaches that can lead to much higher levels of access to higher education by older people already in the workplace. This means models of HE that make available relevant, flexible and responsive provision that meets the high skill needs of employers and their staff.... I would like you to develop a new model for funding higher education that is co-financed with employers, achieves sustained growth in employer based student places, and introduces the principle of employer demand-led funding.’ January 2007 HEFCE Grant Letter

HEFCE Investment £100M investment to develop HE infrastructure for employer workforce development £50M HEFCE co-funded provision allocated to more than 90 HEIs and FECs Diversity of approaches: institutional, regional, national, sectoral Intention that existing investment provides a sustainable platform for further growth from onwards

Workforce Development Activity  growth in work-based students co-funded by HEFCE  9,300 in (2,400 in SMEs)  19,800 in (6,900 in SMEs)  31,500 in (12,000 in SMEs)  growth in employer income  £4.2M in (54% public sector)  £12.8M in (56% public sector)  £21.2m in (59% public sector)

And this wasn’t happening in isolation (1) Additional student numbers HE Centres in ‘cold spots’, based on HE-FE partnership Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs) Foundation Degree, part-time and widening participation allocations Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF) Undergraduate and graduate internships Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)

And this wasn’t happening in isolation (2)

And on Teeside (1) New HE Centres in Middlesbrough, Stockton, Darlington and Hartlepool (£6m HEFCE) 1,300 fte fully funded additional student places Workforce development grant (£5m HEFCE) 2,900 fte co-funded additional student places (1,550 filled – 5,400 students) £400k ECIF grant 212 graduate and 24 undergraduate internships

And on Teesside (2) Between 2008/09 and 2009/10*: continuous professional development (CPD) increased by 78% consultancy increased by 36% regeneration and development increased by 48% public events participation increased by 53% * Last 2 years of data from Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey (HE-BCI)

A new settlement for higher education  Independent Review of Higher Education and Student Finance (Oct 2010)  coalition Government’s first spending review (Oct 2010)  parliamentary vote on student finance (Dec 2010)  HEFCE grant letter (Dec 2010)  guidance to the Office for Fair Access (April 2011)  HE White Paper: Students at the Heart of the System (June 2011)  Consultation on a single regulatory framework (Aug 2011)  HEFCE teaching funding and student places proposals (Oct 2011)

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Shared responsibility Governmen t IndividualsEmployers

First order objectives: 35,000 additional entrants into HE co-funded by employers by ,000 enrolments to Foundation Degrees by Additional objectives test the market and levels of demand from employers and employees stimulate HE institutional change promote access to and progress through HE for a wider range of learners, particularly those in the workforce without previous experience of HE build a platform to achieve growth in HE based workforce development generate information to inform policy development. Workforce development programme objectives

 Oct 2011 to May 2012 – legislation on new regulatory framework  Nov 2011 – Innovation and Research Strategy  Jan 2012 – Wilson review of university-business interaction  Feb to May 2012 – consultation on HEFCE teaching funding from onwards  by April submission of fees and access proposals for  Sep first intake of new fee payers  by Aug 2013 – designation of new providers Key next steps

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