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Enhancing Manufacturing Skills: A Comprehensive Agenda for 2009

This presentation, delivered by Julie Mulryan to the Deans of Engineering on January 22, 2009, outlines crucial strategies for enhancing skills in the manufacturing sector. It highlights challenges such as an ageing workforce and the need for higher skill levels, alongside initiatives like the "Train to Gain" program and the emphasis on apprenticeships. The agenda covers vital topics including sector qualification strategies, employer engagement, and responses to economic downturns, aiming to promote workforce development and improve manufacturing performance.

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Enhancing Manufacturing Skills: A Comprehensive Agenda for 2009

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  1. Skills agenda for Manufacturing Date: 22nd January 2009 Presented to: Deans of Engineering By: Julie Mulryan Welcome

  2. Agenda • Introduction • The Learning and Skills Council • Challenges for Manufacturing • Train to Gain • Core offer • SME flexibilities • Sector compacts • Manufacturing performance to date • Sector Qualification Strategy • Apprenticeships • Manufacturing performance figures • National Apprenticeship Service • Economic downturn

  3. Challenges for Manufacturing • Low skills base • Demographics • Ageing workforce • Gender & ethnic mix • Higher level skills requirements

  4. Train to Gain core offer (1) • Fully funded • First level 2 • Repeat level 2 from SSC agreed list • Skills for life at all levels • First level 3 for 19 – 24 year olds • First level 3 for individuals without a first level 2 • First level 4 for 19-24 year olds without a first level 3

  5. Train to Gain core offer (2) • Shared investment for • First level 3 • Repeat level 3 from SSC agreed list • English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) • Apprenticeships • Leadership and Management • Full cost bespoke training

  6. Train to Gain - performance • 06/07 07/08 • Level 2 3478 6605 • Level 3 131 280 • Total 3609 6885 • Challenge : to increase starts & achievements for those qualifications demonstrating a measurable Return On Investment

  7. SME Offer • Units / thin qualifications at levels 2,3 and 4 in 10 business critical areas; • Business Improvement Techniques (BIT) • Business systems / processes • Team working/communications • Finance and credit • Risk management • Marketing and sales • Customer services • New product design • Cash flow and profit management • IT user / IT support • List will expand in response to identified need

  8. Sector Compacts • Agreement between Sector Skills Councils, DIUS & the LSC • Employer engagement on sector priority qualifications • Skills for Life • Specified Level 2 & 3 • Apprenticeships • Leadership & Management development • Future developments may include level 4 • Currently in place with Semta, Cogent, Proskills & Semta

  9. Sector qualification reform • New or revised qualifications and frameworks • Unitised delivery • Migration from National Qualification Framework (NQF) to Qualification Credit Framework (QCF) • Reduced number of qualifications • Deliver in units / bite sized chunks • Combination, within rules, from mixed qualifications • Progressively available from August 2009 to August 2010

  10. Apprenticeships (1) • 05/06 06/07 07/08 • Advanced Apprenticeship3138 3508 3668 • Apprenticeship 1607 1381 1131 • Total 4745 4889 4799

  11. Apprenticeships (2) • All age apprenticeships now available • National Apprenticeship Service • Launch planned April 2009 • Vacancy matching service , now available • Can continue to work with an existing provider • Or NAS will source provision • Vacancies accessible to all potential applicants

  12. Economic downturn • ESF contract in place with Unity to support Staff at risk of or under notice of redundancy in the Manufacturing sector; • works with JCP on CV preparation & interview skills • Provides support for retraining linked to job offer

  13. Julie Mulryan • julie.mulryan@lsc.gov.uk • 07970 841341 • 0121 345 4554

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