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Education in Employment and Roadmap for Employer-Academic Partnership

This project focused on improving access to lifelong learning, promoting collaboration between enterprise and education, supporting institutional restructuring, and enhancing teaching and learning in Ireland. It addressed workforce development needs, recognized prior learning, and provided diverse learning options for craftspersons and migrants.

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Education in Employment and Roadmap for Employer-Academic Partnership

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  1. Education in Employment and Roadmap for Employer-Academic Partnership

  2. Strategic Innovation Fund 2006-2013 €42 million in Cycle 1 - 2006 €92 million in Cycle 2 - 2007 • Improve access and lifelong learning • Promote collaboration • Support institutional restructuring and reform • Enhance teaching and learning

  3. Background and Context National Context: Workforce Development– Lifelong Learning- Upskilling and Reskilling Regional assessment of requirements Proactive collaboration between enterprise and education Common, well-understood, widely-used framework for the development of ‘Human Capital’ Higher Education Context: Moves Lifelong learning from periphery to the mainstream of academic priorities Flexible and adaptive responses to workforce development needs Creative and innovative – views academic institutions as Key Service Providers Embed isolated examples of excellence into mainstream activity

  4. Education in Employment Project:Focus on 4 distinct areas • Work-based learning • Recognition of prior learning • Progression and diversification for craftspersons • Learning needs of migrants

  5. Work-based Learning andLifelong Learning Four concepts help understand work-based learning in lifelong learning: • Partnership between external organisations and education institutions • Flexibility in terms of time, place and mode of learning • Relevance of meeting the needs of employers and learners • Accreditation of learning experiences

  6. Recognition of Prior Learning and Lifelong Learning • Formal, non-formal, informal learning • Experience of the learner occupies central place in teaching and learning • Improve access for unemployed and maximise opportunities for up-skilling and re-skilling • Provide efficient user-friendly routes to qualifications

  7. Progression of Craftspersons and Lifelong Learning • Creation of planned pathways from apprentice craft education into third level education • Additional exemptions through recognition of prior learning • Provision of a diverse range of delivery options

  8. Migrants and Lifelong Learning • Recognition of international qualifications • Recognition of prior learning • English language provision • Cost of education • Lack of information regarding access to third-level education • Support services for migrant students

  9. Roadmap for Employment-Academic Partnership Addresses the full spectrum of partnership engagement between Higher Education Institutions and workplaces Including: • involvement of workplace experts in the curriculum • development of flexible and accessible learning opportunities for workplace learners at all levels, • fostering of research and technology transfer opportunities

  10. Tri-partite Learning Arrangements

  11. Projects in the Lifelong Learning Context Building Capacity and Capability • Recognition of prior learning • Work-based and blended learning • Flexible and accessible learning Learning at, through and for work • Employer as key partner in the learning process • Specialist customised course developments • Professional postgraduate learning pathways • Negotiated and supported learning planning • Relevant and authentic assessment methods

  12. Concluding Remarks • Enhancing people’s skills gives future competitive advantage to a workforce • Lifelong learning should play a significant part in development for those who are unemployed or whose job functions are under threat • Increasing pressure on Higher Education Institutions to work more closely with employers in meeting and predicting the workforce learning and development needs

  13. For Further Information on the projects: www.eine.ie www.reap.ie

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