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Addressing Change in Built Environment Higher Education Provision

Addressing Change in Built Environment Higher Education Provision. Current and emerging industry situations – issues and challenges David Cracknell CIC Director of Skills & Lifelong Learning. Background. Construction Industry Council (CIC) - industry professional forum body

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Addressing Change in Built Environment Higher Education Provision

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  1. Addressing Change in Built Environment Higher Education Provision Current and emerging industry situations – issues and challenges David Cracknell CIC Director of Skills & Lifelong Learning

  2. Background • Construction Industry Council (CIC) - industry professional forum body • Sector Skills Councils - industry skills facilitation • CIC Built Environment HE Forum - industry - HE/FE dialogue • Industrial Strategy for Construction - Skills and Capacity work stream

  3. Recruitment issues • Construction output only +0.9% pa 2013-17 • Sector employment -8% over the recession • P, M & T ARR only 5,000 pa 2013-17 • Graduate unemployment • Problems of predicting demand and supply • Sector of last resort rather than of choice? • Un-coordinated recruitment by SSCs, HE/FE, professional bodies and employers

  4. Education provision issues • Complex qual.frameworks & funding • Inconsistent qualification qa & independent development, purpose, & assessment • Student fees and course economic viability • Specialist needs – small numbers • Who drives the curriculum – regulators, industry, market, professions, providers? • Right skills, right place, right time

  5. Competence and employability issues • Can clients have confidence in the current competence of industry practitioners? • Myriad industry card schemes, PIs & quals. • HEFCE graduate ‘employability statements’ • Competence benchmarks & qualifications as the 'Gold Standard‘? • Competence a journey (now with rapid direction changes)

  6. Entry and career progression issues • Quality of entrants – secondary curriculum • Unclear entry routes & un-coordinated frameworks & progression to higher levels • Role of Apprenticeships – particularly Higher & Graduate Apprenticeships? • Learning versus competence quals. or learning with competence quals.? • Where does learning best take place?

  7. Changing skills needs issues • Policy, procedural & technological change • Reliance on piecemeal & un-co-ordinated approaches to meeting future skills needs • Time required for realising industry entrant development needs & providers to respond • How do we enable the existing workforce to change? • CPD – importance – structure - provision

  8. ‘Green’ agenda issues • Green Construction Board: Low Carbon Routemap – targets, policies, funding, plans • Climate change/ Environmental impact • Changed emphasis from short term ‘capital’ to ‘whole-life’; from new build to R & M • Sustainable communities • What does it mean for practice/ skills? • Professional decision making – influence

  9. Building Information Modelling issues • Govt. 2016 BIM target – CIC & Task Groups • Focus (both building & infrastructure) on: - client’s stage by stage decision making - integrated cross-discipline work & models - managing information in greater depth - project whole life & asset management • A new approach to how the industry works –a cycle no longer a linear project?

  10. Building Information Modelling

  11. Other industry skills issues • Industry/ employer / education engagement • Fundamentally addressing diversity record • Industry / professional accreditation • Professional body priorities: 1 BIM; 2 cross-disciplinary BE prof. development; 3 respond to nat. ed. policy, apprenticeships, leadership, un-coordinated initiatives by providers)

  12. Cross-disciplinary working issues • Change in work patterns from occupational specific to more flexible functional skills focused operations • BIM, whole-life & procurement influence • Educating in traditional discipline ‘silos’ -uneconomic & unrealistic? • Should education be more cross-discipline, is it holding the industry back?

  13. Industry support and guidance • Labour Market Information http://www.citb.co.uk – research - CSN • National Occupational Standards for BE Professional, Managerial & Technical Roles • Guidance on curriculum development, CPD, accreditation, careers progression & professional development • http://www.cic.org.uk – services – National Occupational Standards & other publications

  14. Shared core values and industry – academia dialogue • Built Environment Statement of Core Values: - commonality of focus underpinning education provision &professional practice - relates to: nature of the sector; education provision &personal development; ethical practice • CIC Built Environment HE Forum - Implementation Group

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