Fe And Skills Workforce Channel Lsis Consultation

Barry Kruger – Director, Knowledge and Intelligence

Bob Powell - Consultant

FE and Skills Workforce Channel: LSIS Consultation

05 March 2009

What Excellence Gateway does

Funded

programmes

VLE interoperability

Research database

Policy updates

Content repository

Collaborative workspaces

Social networking Mentor

programmes

Excellence Gateway

A workforce channel

•DIUS announced an FE and Skills Workforce Channel. (Summer 2008)

•Varney Report: rationalise web-based information and services >> easier for users to find what they want and need

• The customer in this instance is the workforce in the post-16 sector.

•The goal = improved source of online support: information, resources and professional practice for the sector

•Build upon and absorb the Excellence Gateway

A workforce channel: consultation

•Consultation with colleges and other institutions, key individuals and representative groups

•Scoping

•What constitutes the workforce

•What should the channel do

-what purposes

-what processes/ practices

•What is better done elsewhere/ by other means

A Workforce Channel: Dimensions

Leadership & ManagementOrganisational Improvement Quality Curriculum CPD

IndividualProviderAgencies, regulators etc

ContentCommunicationCollaboration

A Workforce Channel: Some questions

•What do you use the web for

•What would be good to have online at/from a single site:

-information

-response (requests for info, consultations etc)

-resources

-communications

--social networking

-shared workspace

-other

Please let me have your views

bobpowellconsulting@talktalk.net