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Area Survey October 2002 Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 2 Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 2 Contents 3 Introduction 4 Objectives 5 Strengths 5 Wide range of provision 6 Size profile of Bedfordshire's school sixth forms 7 Focused further education sector institutions 9 Collaborative working 10 Generally good inspection reports 11 Relationships between schools and colleges 11 Attractiveness to learners from outside the area 13 Increasing participation of learners from minority ethnic groups 13 Knowledge of disability issues 14 Action areas 14 Low GCSE performance of pupils from Luton schools 15 Underachievement of particular groups from key stage 3 onwards 15 Participation rates at 17-years-old 17 Organisation and delivery of adult and community learning 17 Work-based learning provision 19 Careers guidance given to young people 19 Retention and achievement for minority ethnic groups 20 Provision for learners with learning difficulties and/ or disabilities 20 Meeting the needs of employers and learners 21 Consultation with key stakeholders 22 Local education authorities 23 Head teachers of local schools 23 Principals and staff of further education sector institutions 24 Work-based learning providers 25 Connexions/ Careers Service 26 Partners 27 Employers 28 The way forward 29 Appendix 1 Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 3 Introduction The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Bedfordshire and Luton was launched in April 2001. It was established to raise the skills and knowledge of adults and young people. Its ultimate aim is to improve business competitiveness and personal prosperity by championing the power of learning. It is one of 47 local arms of an organisation that has a national budget of around £6 billion and responsibility for financially supporting around five million learners each year. The LSC Bedfordshire and Luton provides funds for post-16 education and learning opportunities and associated activities through further education sector institutions; school sixth forms; adult and community learning colleges; information, advice and guidance for adults networks; education business link organisations; work-based learning providers; and a workforce development/ Investors in People contractor. It also has a flexible budget, the Local Initiative Fund, which enables it to fund development projects. It is also an ESF co-financing organisation. It needs to ensure that it is in a position to effectively plan education and learning provision that meets the needs of individuals, communities, employers and the economy in general. Therefore an area survey of the post-16 education and learning provision that the LSC Bedfordshire and Luton funds was conducted. The area survey covered post-16 education and learning provision in general and was supplemented by two studies, which focused on provision for learners from minority ethnic groups and for people with learning difficulties and/ or disabilities. It also investigated 10 elements of provision that are generally covered by OfSTED inspections. The key headings were: access and participation; learner achievement and progression; curriculum and programmes; teaching and learning; support and guidance; management, collaboration and liaison; strategy and planning; cost effectiveness and value for money; learner needs; and employer needs. The area survey was directed by a steering group comprising key stakeholders and decision-makers. Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 4 Objectives The key objectives of the area survey were to: • Identify the strengths and areas for development of post-16 education and learning provision in Bedfordshire and Luton • Inform the planning processes of the LSC Bedfordshire and Luton, Bedfordshire Local Education Authority, Luton Local Education Authority and learning community partners • Identify actions to improve any areas highlighted for development • Assist the policy objectives of raising participation and achievement of all young people and adults • Create improved working relationships between all learning partners • Anticipate issues that might arise from the planned OfSTED inspection envisaged for 16 to 19 learning provision in Luton • Compare findings with best practice found elsewhere • Identify lessons that Bedfordshire and Luton might be able to learn from. Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 5 Strengths The survey identified a number of areas of strength in the current education and learning provision in the area. Wide range of provision At GCE A/AS and at intermediate and advanced vocational levels pupils and There is a wide range of post-16 education students in the area are well provided for, but and learning provision in the area funded by for those wishing to study at foundation the LSC Bedfordshire and Luton. The 18 local level, the choice is limited. education authority-funded school sixth forms (17 in Bedfordshire and 1 in Luton), There are 15,900 16 to 19-year-olds in four independent secondary school sixth education or learning in the Bedfordshire and forms, four further education sector Luton area. Half of these are in further institutions, 8 LEA maintained Adult and education sector institutions, 37 per cent are Community Learning (ACL) institutions and in school sixth forms and 13 per cent are 21 work-based learning providers deliver this with work-based learning providers. provision. Approximately 4,700 pupils attend the area's 18 LEA-maintained school sixth forms; about 1,200 pupils attend the four independent school sixth forms; 43,500 students attend the four further education sector institutions. In 2001 to 2002, there were approximately 2,100 trainee starts in work-based learning with 25 providers. Of these starts, 1,223 were on Foundation Modern Apprenticeships, 621 were on Advanced Modern Apprenticeships and 250 were on NVQ programmes. About 75 per cent of these 2,100 trainees were aged between 16 and 19-years-old. Most LEA-maintained school sixth forms offer over 20 subjects at GCE A/AS level and offer between 3 and 5 vocational courses at intermediate and advanced level. Bedford College and Luton Sixth Form College also offer a wide choice of GCE A/AS subjects. Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 6 Strengths (continued) Size profile of Bedfordshire's Table 1 school sixth forms Bedfordshire and Luton school sixth forms: The number of pupils at In Bedfordshire there is a large number of school sixth forms offering a number of September 2001. places and a wide range of learning and Number School of pupils qualification opportunities. Bedfordshire LEA Luton has one 11 to 18-year-old co- Biddenham Upper School 115 educational school, Cardinal Newman Roman The Cedars Upper School 394 Catholic School, that has a sixth form of over Harlington Upper School 288 200 pupils. Luton also has a sixth form Hastingsbury Upper School 199 college. John Bunyan Upper School 94 Bedfordshire has a middle school system in Manshead Upper School 231 which sixth form education is provided by Mark Rutherford Upper School 278 seventeen 13 to 18-year-old, comprehensive, Queensbury Upper School 328 mixed schools. Redborne Upper School 409 St Thomas More Catholic School 175 Unlike the rest of the country Bedfordshire Northfields Upper School 133 has a significant proportion of its sixth forms Samuel Whitbread Community College 305 (64 per cent) with over 200 pupils. The Sandy Upper School 156 comparable figure for the country is 40 per Sharnbrook Upper School 564 cent. However, Bedfordshire has an 18 per Stratton Upper School 210 cent tail of school sixth forms with 150 Vandyke Upper School 261 pupils or less. Sixth forms of fewer than 200 Wootton Upper School 346 pupils may find it more difficult to deliver an Bedfordshire total 4486 acceptable range of Curriculum 2000 opportunities for their pupils. Luton LEA Cardinal Newman Catholic School 219 From 1 April 2002, responsibility for funding Luton total 219 school sixth forms passed to the LSC. TOTAL 4705 Table 1 shows the size of school sixth form provision at September 2001. Source: LSC Bedfordshire and Luton Learning and Skills Council Bedfordshire and Luton Area Survey October 2002 7 Strengths (continued) Focused further education The programme areas that attract the highest sector institutions recruitment levels are health and community care, humanities, sciences, business and basic In line with patterns in further education skills. Over one quarter of the enrolments is sector institutions across England, there has from non-white minority ethnic groups. been an emphasis on providing courses to NVQ level 3 and below. The LSC Bedfordshire and Luton funds four further education sector institutions. These are: • Barnfield College • Bedford College • Dunstable College • Luton Sixth Form College. The four further education sector institutions are the principal providers of post-16 further education in the area. For 2001 to 2002 they received funds of about £37 million from the LSC Bedfordshire and Luton. This represents about 80 per cent of their total annual income. For 2000 to 2001, the four further education sector institutions recruited about 43,500 students (see Table 2). 8,000 of these were full-time; 9,300 were 16 to 19-years-old; and 14 per cent were not funded by the LSC Bedfordshire and Luton. Thirty two per cent of enrolments were at NVQ level 1 and below, 24 per cent
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