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Developing the Young Workforce Julie Lynn & Theresa McGowan SQA Regional Manager

Learn about Scotland's Youth Employment Strategy, an initiative to create a world-class vocational education system aimed at improving options for young people and reducing youth unemployment. Discover how SQA and other key agencies are working together to deliver the strategy and how businesses like Apex Hotels have gotten involved. Explore partnerships between schools, employers, and colleges that provide practical industry experience and work placements for students. Find out about SCQF work placement units and support available from SQA.

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Developing the Young Workforce Julie Lynn & Theresa McGowan SQA Regional Manager

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  1. Developing the Young Workforce Julie Lynn & Theresa McGowan SQA Regional Manager SQA Co-ordinator Conference, June 2016

  2. What is DYW? • Scotland’s Youth Employment Strategy (Dec 2014) • Scottish Government’s Seven Year Initiative to create a world class vocational education system • DYW aims to: • Improve the options on offer for young people, and • Reduce youth unemployment to the levels of the best performing countries in Europe

  3. Video link SQA Journeys www.sqa.org.uk/journeys

  4. Delivering for Scotland • SQA understands the needs of learners and of employers • Key agencies are working together to take a leading role in delivering DYW: • SQA • Education Scotland • Skills Development Scotland • Scottish Funding Council • Employers, colleges, schools, and training providers also asked to play an active role

  5. Developing the Young Workforce, call to action video https://www.edinburghchamber.co.uk/dyw

  6. Apex Hotels – How they Got Involved • Helping School to encourage more pupils to stay engaged with Education & Learning • Pre apprenticeship in Hospitality launched • Working across all departments 2 afternoons a week • Pipeline of talent to recruit into Hotels • Working with School and SQA to see what the program will look like next year • Same model now being used with Schools in Dundee and Glasgow

  7. Graeme High School – Falkirk National 5 Skills for Work Engineering School/Employer/College Partnership Working - Delivering N5 Skills for Work Engineering as a pathway from Practical Metalwork Employer Role - Teaching staff negotiated employer, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME), involvement to provide practical real life industry experience - Pupils will attend REME 6 full days spread over academic year - Skills development linking into the units of the course ie changing vehicle brakes & car servicing, building and testing trailer circuits to link to electrical engineering

  8. Graeme High School – Falkirk National 5 Skills for Work Engineering • College Role • - Forth Valley College delivering 6 sessions for pupils to be mentored and taught aspects of Engineering by the second year Oil & Gas apprentices. • - The apprentices will teach elements of the maintenance unit on how to strip, test and assemble pumping systems. • Work Placement • - There is ongoing discussion with a high profile engineering company to provide small number of work placements to pupils who show most promise throughout the course.

  9. Govan High School – Pre Apprenticeship Programme http://www.govanhigh.glasgow.sch.uk/PlainText/PlainText.aspx?SectionId=b9a90f2b-2bb8-412b-b593-ec3e3e1bbdb5

  10. You tell us! What is already going on in your school? Are there gaps? What do you need to do moving forward?

  11. My Sector

  12. Work placement Units • SCQF Levels 3,4,5 and 6 • DYW Work Placement Standards • Assessment Support Packs (Aug 2016) • Work experience units available until July 2017 • Core skills – Working with Others/Problem Solving • Flexible • Learner led

  13. Awards Mapping

  14. Your Regional Manager

  15. Who do we work with?

  16. How can we support you?

  17. www.sqa.org.uk/journeys www.youtube.com/sqaonline www.sqa.org.uk/mysector

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