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The skills and apprenticeships offers: Are they fit to encourage UK growth in the quantity,

geography, demography and skills areas we need? What has to be done to ensure that the gaps are filled?

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Youth and adult unemploymentHow do we compare?

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Best in classFinancial performance

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The UK challenge

Inadequate employability skills

Poor functional skills

Only one in six UK businesses has an apprenticeship scheme (15%)

Evidence of dire skills shortages

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The UK challenge

Differences in opinion over “education” and “training”

Differences in funding methodologies

Life-long learning

Gaps between schooling, vocational training (FE) and higher

education are woeful

Fragmented and dysfunctional

education system

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If a qualification is not about a passport to a job, or a higher level of education, then it has no purpose

Policy

Rigour and Responsiveness in Skills

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The Leading Model

The system is established in statute,

the Vocational Training Act 1969

60% of school leavers undertake an Apprenticeship

An integral part of the education

system in Germany

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The Leading Model

Programmes are developed which match skills development with needs of industry

There is more alignment between funders

Arrangement is between employers, trade unions and federal and state government for development of vocational training & education - they AGREE on the nature/content of what is learned in classroom and workplace learning

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How would the Government ensure

employers were accountable for public

funds when they are acting as both awarding body and

provider of the training?

To close the gaps……

esg. is supportive of building a skilled workforce - we recognise the need to

deliver skills that employers need

Employer Ownership of SkillsThere is value in involving employers in developing the training schemes to benefit their particular

industry/company and employees

Further demand on an already overstretched ASB –

skills needs more money ?

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Summary

The different education and training sectors need to stop competing and start collaborating

Tax payers money for skills funding should be spent where

employers won’t spend

Large employers and SMES are chalk and cheese (kreide

and fromage!)

Too many reviews have been undertaken which have started in the wrong place,

been too narrow, simplistic and idealistic, flying straight by the bigger issues

It is not just Apprenticeships that aren’t fit for purpose but the whole system

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Thank you

Anthony BentonChief Operating Officer - Skills