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Priorities for ensuring a good vocational offer and progression to post 16 courses

Priorities for ensuring a good vocational offer and progression to post 16 courses. Rob Williamson Skills and Employability Team. Raising of the Participation Age.

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Priorities for ensuring a good vocational offer and progression to post 16 courses

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  1. Priorities for ensuring a good vocational offer and progression to post 16 courses Rob Williamson Skills and Employability Team

  2. Raising of the Participation Age • From summer 2013, young people will be required to continue in education or training until the end of the academic year in which they turn 17. • From 2015, they will be required to continue until their 18th birthday. • RPA will take effect from the last day of the academic year in summer 2013

  3. Raising of the Participation Age This doesn’t necessarily mean staying in school. Young people will be able to choose how they participate post-16, which could be through: full-time education, such as school, college or otherwise; an Apprenticeship; part-time education or training if they are employed, self employed or volunteering for 20 hours or more a week. D F E guidance: http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/youngpeople/participation/rpa

  4. Key stage 4 Destination Measure What the measures might look like: School A had 90 per cent of pupils who progressed to a positive destination within one year of ending Key Stage 4. Of these pupils: 50 per cent entered further education in School Sixth Form 20 per cent entered further education in Further Education College 10 per cent  entered work-based learning or an Apprenticeship 10 per cent entered employment

  5. 16-18 Destination Measure What the measures might look like: College B had 70 per cent of students who progressed to a positive destination within one year of their 16-18 learning. Of these pupils: 40 per cent entered higher education at University (5 per cent of these students went to Oxford or Cambridge University) 20 per cent continued in further education. 10 per cent entered employment

  6. Destination Measures Measures will: be based on participation in all of the first two terms (defined as October to March). encourage institutions to support and prepare their learners to progress to a destination which offers sustained engagement. Phase One July 2012 all education destinations including apprenticeships. Data to be published as Experimental status Phase Two. Spring 2013 more complex employment statistics

  7. Bold Steps for Kent Priority 4: Shape education and skills provision around the needs of the Kent economy “Work with all providers to deliver a 14-24 Strategy that equips young people with the academic, vocational and life skills required to succeed in the 21st century economy, with learning and training options that meet the needs of the private and public sector.”

  8. How are we currently doing? 13.6% of Kent learners achieve no improvements in qualifications between ages of 16 and 19, compared to 12.9% nationally

  9. What are the current challenges to ensuring a good vocational offer leads to progression post 16 Developing employability skills pre 16 as part of the vocational offer Ensuring learners are equipped with the skills to succeed in work based learning post 16 Improving Pre 16 learning in Maths and English to ensure progression between levels post 16 Developing a vocational offer that supports the local economy and learners seeking employment Supplementing vocational learning with appropriate levels of work related learning and CEIAG

  10. What are the current challenges to ensuring a good vocational offer leads to progression post 16 Planning a local collaborative vocational curriculum that ensures that: learners are not led into vocational cul de sac post 16 learners have the opportunities to meet their ambitions post 16 there is access to a local foundation and level 1 offer funding is targeted and avoids local post 16 duplication communication channels between providers are in place so that progression barriers can be tackled locally

  11. REAL DRIVER YOUNG PEOPLE’S NEEDS 1m 16-24 yr olds unemployed 22% of 16-24 yr olds Lack of Experience Lack of Contacts Lack of Employability Skills “Its Who You Meet” Education and Employers Taskforce - Report February 2012 http://www.educationandemployers.org/research/taskforce-publications/its-who-you-meet/

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