Owen Evans

Director - Skills, Higher Education and Lifelong LearningCyfarwyddwr - Sgiliau, Addysg Uwch a Dysgu Gydol Oes

Moving from Learner Demand to Economic Demand

Agenda

• Context for Careers Service

• Review Process

• The goods and bads

• Key issues

• Developing approach in Wales

Careers Services

• Background• Leitch, Webb review• UKCES • Wales Employment and Skills Board• Review of Careers Wales

– First Review suggested unification– Review also highlighted wider concerns over CW role

• Second Review Chaired by Dr Haydn Edwards with Dr Deidre Hughes and Prof Danny Saunders.

• Careers Wales staff in the 6 companies – 1,035• H.E. Careers Advisory Services in 12 H.E.I s - 154• Secondary Schools (220 maintained)• FE colleges 20 institutions - est. 100 • Learning Coaches - 1,200 registered• Jobcentre Plus - 719 personal advisors• Probation and Youth Offending Team workers – 1,500 • Community Learning Representatives - 1,000• Union Learning Representatives – 1,200• DWP Providers ??• Estimate of around 5,000 individuals – not FTE

What does the Careers Service look like in Wales?

A complex footprint…

Edwards Review

Terms of Reference

•A broad span of careers education and IAG provided by Careers Wales and other providers•Consider Prof Watts assessment and steps required to develop to a world-class system•Consider different client groups and the relevant processes•Consider coherence and cost effectiveness of existing structures•Develop a vision for future direction•Propose a strategy for realising the vision.

Further Considerations

•Relationships between service providers and service users•How these services and relationships are managed, co-ordinated, quality assured, monitored, inspected and evaluated ; and•How the services were supported by a range of factors such as professional standards, qualified staff, capacity building, benchmark arrangements, sharing of information and best practice, use of data and technology and the role of research and peer review

First Impressions – positive

•Innovative practices – use of technology•Outstanding Estyn reports•An all age, comprehensive and bilingual service•Local structures with strong management and governance•Data driven and responsive

Not so positive …..

• “doing too many things”• National leadership not developed• Communication with (and within) Government needed improving

Recommendations 1

• Careers and the World of Work• Education Business Partnerships and Sector

Skills Councils• Building Capacity in the Career Service• 14-19 Learning Pathways Partnership/Children

and Young People• A fully integrated Service Delivery Model• Priority Groups

Recommendations 2

• Career service for Adults• Welfare reform agenda• Careers Service Strategy Forum for Wales• Careers Wales – organisation and brand• DCELLS Careers service policy branch

Overriding Issues

•Market supply not aligned to market need – poor LMI•Lack of Visible Ownership for Business Sector to engage with and no single coordinating body•Context differences between sectors•Engagement with education sector not seen as adding value for businesses•Language differences hampering engagement•Barriers being inadvertently raised for social mobility•Business not used to engaging with education on a collective basis

Primary School

Secondary School

HEFE

Business/ Industry

•Basic Maths•Basic Literacy

•Governance•Teachers Experience•Reporting•Careers Advice •Bias against Apprenticeships •Work Experience •LMI

•Some good practice but supply mis-aligned Supply of key skills insufficient •Inflexible and/or lack critical mass

Don’t take Macro Approach •No Compulsion to match output with demand HESA hampered by lack of LMI

Business/IndustryCareers Wales

Sector Skills Councils

Current Picture of Business-Education Links in Wales

•Short term •Act individually •Demand flexibility•Little Understanding of Education Sector

Progress to date

•LMI – discussions with UKCES and WAG Economic Renewal Programme•SSC dialogue•Work Experience Conference•Close links with employers directly FSB/CBI/and through WESB•Planning underway for future Careers Service, function and form

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