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The Skills Show 2012 Souvenir Edition The Skills Show 2012 souvenir edition Produced by FE Week, proud to be In partnership with 2 Skills Show 2012 www.feweek.co.uk Welcome to our souvenir edition to any training provider wishing to On page 4 and 5 we let the further working with AELP to help prepare the offer students a qualifi cation that not education sector discuss their thoughts on sector for the October switchover. only teaches them the fundamentals of functional skills. Sarah Benioff, a national What kind of a guide would this be English, maths and ICT, but also how to apprenticeship director at the National without some handy resources to help you apply them in the real world. Apprenticeship Service (NAS) begins get started? On pages 12 to 14 we present However, functional skills is about to be with her opinions on how the switch- one of the CPD activities produced by introduced to the further education sector over will affect other quality measures LSIS for the Excellence Gateway, as well in a big way, as from the start of October being introduced to the apprenticeship as some guidance on where to access more it becomes a compulsory part of the programme, such as the new 12 month information. It’s a per fect way to get your apprenticeship framework. minimum duration. staff up to speed. So is the further education sector ready On the following page, however, Page 15 builds on this by examining the to switch over to functional skills? You you can hear some of the reservations different delivery models that providers can fi nd out the results of an FE Week of Stella Turner, qualifi cations & can use to deliver functional skills. survey asking that very question over on curriculum manager at the Association The materials, originally produced by page 3. With more than 150 respondents of Employment and Learning Providers AELP, are a fantastic starting point if from different apprenticeship providers, (AELP). Moving forward it illustrates how you’re unsure of the advantages and you might be surprised by some of much we as a sector still need to consider. disadvantages of each approach. the fi ndings. Meanwhile, we also ask One of the most understated and least- Implementing functional skills, or any providers whether they feel that they’ve reported aspects of functional skills is other English and maths qualifi cation, can been given enough time and information how they are used to teach recruits in the sometimes feel like an insurmountable Chris Henwood to successfully transition from key skills. Army. On page 6 Brigadier Gary Morris task. With this supplement though, we @Chris_Henwood Also on page 3 is an insight into one offers an exclusive insight into how the hope you can start to unpack and break of the fastest-growing trends in the qualifi cations have been introduced by down any concerns you may have about Functional skills space – outsourcing. the Armed Forces, as well as what impact, these qualifi cations, letting you get on his one-off FE Week special edition, As colleges and independent training if any, they have had on the overall with what you’re best at – improving Tsponsored by Tribal, takes an indepth providers increasingly look for support, performance of its soldiers. people’s life chances. look at the implementation of English, some specialised companies have begun The Learning and Skills Improvement maths and functional skills. Produced in offering ‘packages’ of online learning Service (LSIS) has collated and produced partnership with Tribal, it’s the essential tools to help them teach, track and assess a range of materials online that can help guide for making sense of any changes their learners. your organisation implement functional your organisation needs to make in the In our short feature we look at what has skills effectively. On page 11 Rob Wye, coming months. caused this growth, and ask whether we chief executive of LSIS comments on Functional skills have been with us can expect this trend to continue in the why functional skills is important for for some time now. They are available coming months. our society, as well as how LSIS has been Special edition produced by FE Week, in partnership with City & Guilds FE Week is a newspaper dedicated SUBSCRIBE TO to reporting on news, analysis, jobs and fun in the further education sector. FE WEEK TODAY FE Editor: Nick Linford Week Deputy Editor: Chris Henwood Senior Reporter: Eleanor Radford Head Designer: Daniel Duke Reporter: Holly Welham Sales Manager: Chardelle Mason Events: Natalie Tremlett Operations: Shane Mann Supplements: Nick Summers All photos taken by Nick Linford and Shane Mann (except pages 14 and 15) Subscribe online now at feweek.co.uk If you are interested in sponsoring a supplement or placing a product or job advert in the main paper, please contact E: [email protected] T: 020 8123 4891 M: 07903 421171 www.feweek.co.uk Skills Show 2012 3 The Skills Show opening ceremony Shane Mann @Shanermann he Skills Show 2012 kicked off with a Tceremony that starred hundreds of learners, agency chiefs, WorldSkills UK alumni, Theo Paphitis and the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP. The show was watched in Birmingham’s LG Arena by around 10,000 people, including competitors, providers, sector leaders and employers. The ceremony, which took place on Wednesday, November 14, was hosted by TV presenter Will Best — best known as one of Channel 4’s T4 presenting team. It was offi cially opened by Mr Cable and WorldSkills 2011 gold medallist and best in nations winner Shane Trevitt. Speaking at the event, Mr Cable highlighted the importance of apprenticeships and the value of vocational skills to the economy. He applauded and congratulated the event for its “celebration of apprentices, employer and young people.” Organisers of the ceremony also aimed to ensure that just like the main three-day show, it was a showcase and celebration of young peoples’ abilities, dedication and passion. It employed the amazing talents of young people during the “igniting the show” performance in the second part of the ceremony. First Act Workshops, based in Moseley in Birmingham, performed early in the evening. James O’Hare, 18, raises his umberella This year’s awards saw the introduction of a new category voted for by the public — A celebration the City & Guilds apprenticeship champion of the year. of apprentices, It recognises the impact apprentices make on their employer’s business development employers and and growth and the former apprentices’ role in championing apprenticeships to schools, young people young people and the public at large. “ Jenny Westworth, a 23-year-old former apprentice from Morecambe, Performances came from the likes of was announced as the fi rst ever national Rhythm Junkiez, Birmingham’s largest apprenticeship champion of the year. dance school who specialise in street, Miss Westworth, did an advanced hip hop and breakdance and Dhol Crew, apprenticeship in aerospace engineering at based in the West Midlands, who play BAE Systems in 2007. both traditional and contemporary music She has continued to combine learning bringing the roots of the Dhol drum into and earning by working on Typhoon the 21st Century with their own “east meets Aircraft while studying for an aeronautical west fusion”. HND as an manufacturing engineer at BAE Mr Cable and Mr Trevitt led the audience Systems. in a countdown from ten to zero to set off “It’s nice to be acknowledged and also to an explosion of confetti and sparks that lit represent the company,” she said. the auditorium — and it was time for an FE “My career stems from the support BAE party like no other. Systems has given me, so it’s great to be able But the ceremony had also played host to to give something back. the ninth annual National Apprenticeship “For me, I felt there was much more Awards. opportunity from an apprenticeship and it’s The awards celebrate the achievements given me the chance to see and understand made by both employers and apprentices. a business from different angles.” 4 Skills Show 2012 www.feweek.co.uk Have-a-Go Build a model fighter jet with BAE systems n impressive replica model of the AEurofigher was on offer at BAE Systems’ Skills Show stand for visitors who could bolt all the plane’s aluminium sections together. They had 15 minutes to complete the Have-a-Go task under the watchful eye of Sam Andrews, production launch engineer in BAE’s military, air and information arm, based in Samlesbury, near Preston. “The younger kids didn’t quite have the same dexterity with their hands as the older ones and required a lot more help,” he said. “They were all surprised they got to keep the plane — to be fair it’s not a bad bit of kit to take home.” The parts for the model, at 27cm long and 16cm wide, were all made by first year BAE apprentices. “I can put it together three and a half minutes, but then again I designed it,” added Sam, who has been with BAE five years having finished his aeronautical engineer apprenticeship two years ago. “One of the best we had was an 11-year-old girl who did it in 9 minutes and she hadn’t even considered engineering, so we told her the skills she had were very good. I think she went away really thinking about an engineering career.” Birmingham 17-year-old Khadija Qurat- Ul-Ain, who is studying A-level sociology and also doing a Btec in Childcare at Bordesley Green Sixth Form, tried building one of the planes.
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