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Day One Workshops

As part of the National Conference 2014 all attendees will have the opportunity to attend a choice of workshops during both days. These are now available to book.

Workshop 1 (WSD1-1)
Workshop Room 1 – First Floor

Skills Funding Agency: Funding Rules 2014 to 2015 – Important changes to Apprenticeships and Adult Skills Budget from 2013/14

Facilitated by, Nick Chomyk, Laura Armit and Sarah Stear, Skills Funding Agency


This workshop will examine the changes in the Skills Funding Agency’s funding rules for Adult Skills Budget and Apprenticeships between 2013/2014 and 2014 to 2015. There are some significant changes next year that were announced in the Skills Funding Statement 2013-2016 that have been put into the funding rules for Adult Skills Budget and Apprenticeship starting in August 2014. Each change will be explained and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. The workshop will be led by Nick Chomyk and Laura Armit, Funding Systems Managers, who have responsibility for writing the funding rules for the SFA.


Workshop 2 (WSD1-2)
Workshop Room 2 – First Floor

Traineeships: The Policy Perspective for 14/15 and Experiences of Early Delivery

Facilitated by Kelly Hughes, Vocational Educational Division, Department for Education & Anthony Chalmers, Pre-employment and Basic Skills Unit, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills



This session will provide information on traineeships policy for 14/15, as well as offer the opportunity for education and training providers to share their experiences of designing and delivering programmes to young people.



Workshop 3 (WSD1-3)
Workshop Room 3 – First Floor

Construction Trailblazer 2 - Our Experience

Facilitated by Alison Lamplough, Laing O'Rourke & Tom Gibney, CITB


This workshop will showcase the Standards developed and their associated high level assessment guidance together with the rationale for its content, explaining the development/validation process. It will also explore the challenges faced over future development work.



Workshop 4 (WSD1-4)
Workshop Room 4 – First Floor

Working Collaboratively with Schools, Employers and Providers

Facilitated by Ray Plummer, National Careers Service

In addition to delivering careers information advice and guidance the National Careers Service will adopt a new role from October 2014 that involves facilitating relationships between schools and employers to create inspiring opportunities for young people to learn more about the world of work. In this workshop you will hear more about the Agency’s plans to develop the National Careers Service and have the opportunity to shape how the National Careers Service works more collaboratively with apprenticeship and traineeship providers. There will also be information about the new Consumer Services team and we will spend some time on how the new arrangements can help you in your work apprenticeships and traineeships.



Workshop 5 (WSD1-5)
Workshop Room 5 – Second Floor

Accountancy Trailblazer

Facilitated by Johanna Mothander, PwC and Nick Gash, AAT

This workshop will detail how the Accountancy Trailblazer has defined and implemented the Government’s vision and ambition for Apprenticeships to be employer led and employer defined.


Workshop 6 (WSD1-6)
Workshop Room 6 – Second Floor

Developing Capacity to Deliver Maths & English

Facilitated by Steve Pardoe, Association of Centres for Excellence in Teacher Training (ACETT)

This workshop will explore the challenging issues facing training providers with regard to the delivery of Maths and English in apprenticeships, traineeships and study programmes.  Particular areas of focus will include:
  •     Staff capacity - up-skill, recruit or collaborate?
  •     Developing a coherent staff development strategy
  •     Roles of different staff in maths and English
  •     The particular issues of GCSE (... & level 3!)


Workshop 7 (WSD1-7)
Workshop Room 7 – Second Floor

 

Teaching Contextualised English and Maths through Problem Solving in Apprenticeships

Facilitated by Sue Salter, OCR


The Skills Funding Agency and Ofsted are now focussed on monitoring whether English and maths are being taught contextually within vocational programmes - which is good practice. This interactive workshop will look at a model of working within Apprenticeship programmes to contextualise English and maths skills within OCR employability and vocational qualifications. We will look at working ‘smartly’ to support delivery of English and maths within the learner’s main subject programme.



Workshop 8 (WSD1-8)
Workshop Room 8 – Second Floor

Best Practice Use of an E-portfolio to Engage with all Stakeholders

Facilitated by Danny Taylor, Smart Assessor

Smart Assessor's workshop will be about the best practice use of an e-portfolio to engage with all the possible stakeholders. With an ever evolving environment and the employer reforms on the horizon it's important that you get the best out of your e-portfolio and more importantly engage with all of your stakeholders to demonstrate that you are value added.


Workshop 9 (WSD1-9)
Workshop Room 9 – Second Floor

The Future for Vocational Qualifications: An Awarding Organisation Perspective

Facilitated by John McNamara and Bhupindra Sard, Lifetime Awarding

Lifetime Awarding consider the current changes affecting vocational qualifications and the impact and challenges for providers and employers, including how these challenges can be better faced through increased partnerships and collaborations between awarding organisations, providers and employers.


Workshop 10 (WSD1-10)
Workshop Room 10 – Second Floor

Traineeships - Building Staff Capacity and Confidence

Facilitated by Stella Turner and Tim Chewter, AELP, Matt Garvey, WBTC and Jo North, In Touch Care.

In the context of high youth unemployment, traineeships have the potential to be a real success in offering a route-way to sustained employment and further training for young people. However, it is clear that traineeships have been slow to get off the ground and providers are in need of support to build staff confidence and capacity. The Traineeship Staff Support Programme, commissioned and funded by The Education and Training Foundation, was launched to meet this need and develop resources that support the workforce, positively impacting on learners and employers.

Come and hear from project leads on some of their emerging findings, and how you can better support your staff to deliver traineeships. Whether you currently deliver traineeships or are looking to in the future, this workshop will no doubt be beneficial to you and your workforce.


Workshop 11 (WSD1-11)
Workshop Room 11 – Second Floor

Building Learning Programmes to Secure Skills and Sustainable Employment

Facilitated by Ruth Carter, OCR

This workshop will be looking at how to understand learning programmes and will give an overview of integrated mapping for different progression pathways. Practical mapping activities for designing integrated programmes will be explored so that centres can work ‘smartly’ when building learning programmes to take into account employability skills, English and maths alongside a vocational main subject programme.


Workshop 12 (WSD1-12)
Workshop Room 12 – Second Floor

The National Numeracy Challenge

Facilitated by Mike Ellicock, National Numeracy

National Numeracy was launched as a Charity in March 2012, to bring an unrelenting spotlight onto the importance of numeracy or everyday maths for individuals and for the UK as a whole. The Challenge, is our first major project and was launched in March.

The Challenge is built around a non-threatening interactive website designed to anonymously assess and improve participants’ everyday maths skills in bite-sized steps – building confidence along the way. We have had over 30,000 registrations already – with a target of improving the numeracy of over 1m adults in the first 5 years.

Mike will provide an overview of the Challenge and describe our work with the Behavioural Insights Team (aka the ‘Nudge Unit’) to use the Challenge to explore innovative ways of supporting everyone in the UK to reach a level of numeracy that allows them to meet their full potential.


Workshop 13 (WSD1-13)
Workshop Room 13 – Second Floor

Engaging and Working with Employers

Facilitated by Laura-Jane Rawlings, Youth Employment UK CIC


Employer engagement is a key part in the success of training and employment programmes for young people.  With a greater demand on those employers, YEUK takes a Youth Friendly look at how educators and training organisations can support employers not yet reaping the benefits of engaging young people into their workforce.


Workshop 14 (WSD1-14)
Workshop Room 14 – Second Floor

ETF Governance & Leadership

Facilitated by Krysia Hudek, Open Agenda

The workshop is designed to focus on the priorities of the leaders of training organisations, drawing on a new good practice guide on strategic leadership and respond to issues that need to be tackled to get the most out of governance structures.  It will assume that participants have read through the Guide which is downloadable from the AELP website.
 
The workshop will be highly participative and run under Chatham House rules so anything said during discussions will remain completely confidential.
 
The workshops will also provide an opportunity to explore the concept of Executive Exchange Visits (Executive Exchange Visits are designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and good practice in relation to strategic leadership and governance by providing opportunities for directors and other strategic leaders to shadow others in similar roles in different parts of the sector).
 
Facilitated by Krysia Hudek, Senior Partner, Open Agenda. Krysia has over 25 years of experience of facilitating groups and larger events within the FE sector. Krysia’s specialisms include facilitating creative ideas and problem solving, she is well known for facilitating tailor made national, ideas-building events.