1. Professor Robin Baker OBE The growing importance of Technical and Vocational Training to support industry growth Director & CEO Ravensbourne

2. Who are we? 2000 students Pre-degree Undergraduate Postgraduate Emphasis enterprise and innovation A small specialist HE institution design & digital media Digital Conservatoire (15% increase in applications last year)

3. www.rave.ac.uk the challenge to all of us High level skills – the skills associated with HE are essential to the economy and the individual Key competitor countries have a higher proportion of of their adult workforce with high level skills 2 billion people in China and India with 5 million graduates a year – we have to compete with high level skills

4. We cant compete in low level skills Rethinking High Level skills Need to use information technology, including the internet to develop high level skills Higher education needs to own this development because www.rave.ac.uk

5. We need a thinking workforce working intelligently –outside our preoccupation with degrees Commercial Training Incubation/accelerator Rethinking High Level skills because www.rave.ac.uk

6. Digital Consultancy www.rave.ac.uk

7. £75million private and public investment

8. Greenwich Peninsula

9. www.rave.ac.uk Projects and Event Overseas development Digital consultancy Incubation. vocational programmes off quota

10. www.rave.ac.uk Vocational offer projects and events (Mozilla Ogilvy, Barclays, You Tube) arising from the new location and building. Overseas Development with projects arising from the new location and building together with the digital expertise that has been grown in our core business. Working in Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Kenya vocational programmes off quota New Business 4 – Incubation 100 incubating companies with support from European programme

11. www.rave.ac.uk Digital consultancy PM ‘s Tech city Advisory Board 9 month rolling programme coding and Life Skills for the Creative Activities and support of GLA Growing Places Fund a Design/Manufacturer Digital Innovation Support Centre vocational programmes off quota Incubation 100 incubating companies with support from European programme

12. Thank you for your time

13. Please feel free to ask me questions Professor Robin Baker OBE Director & CEO Ravensbourne r.baker@rave.ac.uk www.rave.ac.uk