1. Beverley Fielding Dr Alison Felce
University of Wolverhampton

2. Project Title
Wolverhampton Infrastructure for Business and Community Engagement (Wi4BCE) JISC Transformations
JISC – Joint Information Systems Committee

3. Project Aim
Enhanced Organisational Capability for Business and Community Engagement with the focus on Work-based Learning Review, evaluate and use existing JISC resources
THE AIM - To create the organisational environment in which staff can identify and develop business and community engagement opportunities.
JISC has asked that we utilise relevant existing resources that have been created so they’re not just sitting in a corner gathering dust.

4. Progress Overview Search and review JISC resources
Stakeholder interviews conducted
Explain how we identified stakeholders to interview by questions asked by Peter during our first meeting
Interview questions set by using JISC case studies from similar projects carried out by other institutions
Speak about the summary table and how it identifies resources we have used and not used but how they could be useful for elsewhere around the University or for future projects

5. Barriers Getting staff to commit to an interview
Feedback concentrated mainly on the negative, rather than the positive, aspects of work-based learning
24 Interview 1 external 17 internal staff
Interviews were useful in that they raised the problems that needed to be dealt with and after all the project is about what needs to be changed.
Stakeholders had to be prompted on what was going well for them

6. Issues to address Communication Systems & Processes
Strategy & Governance
Project aligns to University Strategies
Governance in terms of a top down/bottom up approach to enable the project to be achieved
STRATEGY - In particular the EMPLOYABILTY & ENTERPRISE Strategy, RESEARCH Strategy and LEARNING AND TEACHING Strategy and the STUDENT EXPERIENCE Strategy
GOVERNANCE – We need to make sure the governance is in place for the aims of the project to be supported and achieved

7. Planned Actions Communication & Engagement Strategy and Plan
Develop and improve systems and processes
Align our project with other initiatives
SOME OF THE INITIATIVE WILL BE SHOWN ON THE NEXT SLIDE

8. Our project is informed by and informing related these activities
Also have to be mindful of the Learning and Teaching Strategy, Student Experience Strategy and the Research Strategy
Speak about the SUMMARY TABLE and sharing of the relevant resources identified to the assist with the AIMS

9. Expected Outcomes
An infrastructure that supports the broader development of the organisation to offer a range of work-based learning opportunities
Strategic approach and response to identification, negotiation and provision of work-based learning curricula

10. Our use of the WBL Toolkit Our focus……
Strategic level
Systems, protocols, resources
Setting agendas for the University
Action plans
Targets/deadlines
FOCUS – is strategic level, one of the outcomes mention already enhanced capability
Primarily we are using the first section 1 Institutional Readiness: WBL strategy and plans.
Other sections will be utilised when we have the relevant infrastructure in place to allow us to concentrate on the other areas

11. Audit What do we currently do? What do we want to do? What is the gap?
How do we fill the gap?
Toolkit helped identify the gap between where we want to be and where we are.
Helped us ask the relevant questions of ourselves and our systems and processes

12. WBL Toolkit Feedback Primary resource
Useful guidelines and evidence to enable the University to measure its “readiness” for WBL
Easy to follow format
Potentially, too much information

13. Thank you for listening….
Any Questions?