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Team East Bulletin Team East Bulletin July 2014 Skills Competition CPD programme (see East of England Programme page 4). This is a nationally funded Education and Training Foundation CPD programme, managed by AoC with a programme running in each of the AoC regions. As a starting point to the programme ACER undertake research using LMI to effectively map sector skills priorities/gaps to skills competition entries in the East of England to allow us to identify and encourage competitions in under- represented skills and engage employers within our region. To download the research click here. We also want to consider how we work with our Local Enterprise Partnerships to drive up the skills agenda and to ensure we position our provision and learners are best place for local opportunities. Dear Colleagues Many of you attended our event in Cambridge on the I am delighted to bring to you, lots of exciting news as 6th June 2014. It was great to hear how the national we move towards the end of the Summer term. Skills Show (Birmingham) event, local Skills Show Experiences and WorldSkills competitions are now WorldSkills – on the road to Brazil! (see page 2). As a under the one management model – Find a Future. region we do not unfortunately have any learners This gives up opportunities for local, LEP level th selected to go through to EuroSkills (Lille, France) 2-4 collaborative approaches to careers education and October. However our registrations are up from last guidance – based on the Skills Show model. Plans for year (199) to 237 this year – see page 3 list. We have a regional Skills Show event here Angela? entries this year in Environmental Science, Popular Music, Visual Merchandising, CNC Milling and Turning, Yours sincerely Health and Social Care, Nail Art. Objective to cover all areas and in our next what we don’t have entries into. Angela Joyce, Principal & CEO Competitions working with LLDD – some fantastic activity major feature in this bulletin [email protected] Skills Show Experience – across the region we have seen a number of small and large events taking place engaging Schools and providers in careers and vocational learning (pages 5 & 6). The Skills Show - Book here for FREE entry - WorldSkills UK drives excellence in workplace skills 13 to 15 November - NEC through competition. WorldSkills UK Skills Competitions is now part of Find a Future, a new Birmingham organisation which brings together the Nation’s flagship skills and careers experiences. Free to visit, The Skills Show is the nation’s largest skills and careers event, offering inspiring For the latest news and updates on all competitions, opportunities in skills, training and apprenticeships. sign up to receive an enewsletter straight to your Attracting 75,000 visitors, this exciting experience is inbox. one of the most popular events of the year. You can book a place for yourself, or you can act as a lead WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015 booker and book on behalf of a group of people. In August 2015, the UK’s most talented apprentices and learners will battle it out against teams from around the world at WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015. The competitors representing the UK at WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015 undergo an intense selection and training programme to ensure they ready to compete on the World stage. They were invited to take part in the programme after excelling at the WorldSkills UK National Competitions, the finals of which are held at The Skills Show. Squad UK Selection for WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015 took place in June. Squad UK for WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015 East of England team selected – 4 squad competitors in 3 skill areas: Beauty Therapy Amber Scholes Aphrodite Beauty Studio Ashley Gissing Rosie's Beautician and day spa Great Yarmouth College Travel reimbursements Jewellery Ben Pritchard, Essex Travel bursaries are available for groups of over 40 – Employer - Emson Haig find out more. The Goldsmiths Company Web design Bartosz Durma Barnfield College 2 Worldskills East of England Registrations provider/subject area registrations Competition 2013/14 Bricklaying 8 Carpentry 4 Organisation Registrations Electrical Installation 3 No Organisation 2 Environmental Science 4 Barnfield College 3 Joinery 2 Bedford College 15 Painting and Decorating 5 Cambridge Regional College 14 Plastering 3 City College Norwich 8 Plumbing 5 East Norfolk Sixth Form College 4 Popular Music 17 Easton and Otley College 8 Video Moving Image 8 Epping Forest College 7 Visual Merchandising 4 Aeronautical Engineering: Forever Green Florist 1 Avionic Great Yarmouth College of 3 Further Education 23 Aeronautical Engineering: HaVe Training 1 Mechanical 2 Hertford Regional College 1 Automotive Refinishing 2 Honda 1 Automotive Technology 14 Huntingdonshire Regional CNC Milling 2 College 4 CNC Turning 1 IMI 1 Welding 12 Keits Ltd 1 IT Software Solutions for Lowestoft College 6 Business 6 Marshall Aerospace and IT Support Technician 9 Defence Group 4 Network Infrastructure Metalcraft 3 Technician 8 Network Systems North Hertfordshire College 19 Administrator 3 Oaklands College 13 Web Development Peterborough Regional 2 College 24 Aromatherapy 6 Sir John Gleed School 4 Beauty Therapy 33 Floristry 4 Sir William Ramsay School 1 Hairdressing 26 The College of West Anglia 52 Health and Social Care 3 University Academy Media Makeup 13 Holbeach 3 Nail Art 9 West Hertfordshire College 1 Nail Enhancements 8 West Suffolk College 11 Reflexology 8 Westfield Academy 2 TOTAL 237 TOTAL 237 3 4 A ‘Try it out’ day - where participants benefitted from IAG and Have A Go sessions. Subject included Art and Design; Brickwork; Business; Carpentry and Joinery; Childcare; Computing; Electrical; Engineering; Graphic Design; To date there have been seven small and two large Hair and Beauty; Hospitality; Media, TV and Film; Skills Show Experience events in the Eastern Region. A Motor Vehicle; Music; Nail Tech; Performing Arts; further three small events planned: Photography; Plumbing; Science; Textiles and Travel Colchester Institute - 12/13 November and Tourism. TCHC - 20 November Cambridge Regional College- 28 November and one large event: Suffolk Skills Show, Trinity Park, Ipswich - 22 October - 09:30 – 19:00 If you would like to attend any of these events with groups of your students contact Sheila Louth on 01480 409306. Photography We’ve enjoyed some very diverse and imaginative Skills Show Events so far, here are the small events to date: The College of West Anglia - 18 February (focus on local opportunities) Harlow College – 4/5 March (focus on STEM) West Suffolk College - 19 March (Little Big Bang STEM event) Bedford College - 20 March (focus on local opportunities) Barnfield College - 4 June (focus on local Textiles opportunities and building your future) Peterborough Regional College - 9 June (focus on local opportunities) East Norfolk Sixth Form College, held at North Suffolk Skills Academy - 3 July (LLDD) and large events: The Skills Show Experience Herts held at North Herts College (Stevenage campus) - 3 April The Careers Festival held - 10 July at the Peterborough Embankment. Electrical 5 The Hertfordshire event involved 58 employers, the National Careers Service, a skills competition and 37 “Have a Go” activities (which included STEM). The event was held on Thursday 3 April from 10:00 until 16:00 at the Stevenage Campus of North Herts College. There were 17 employer-led workshops and VIP guests included Monica Gomes from the Skills Funding Agency; representatives from Freshminds; four people from the EDGE Foundation (one of the lead sponsors) and three NHC Governors. There were over 1621 visitors and 38% signed up for future activities/information. 55% of those surveyed (by Freshminds) received careers advice (28% from NCS, one of the key partners who had “the hub” present). Of those surveyed, 71% stated their knowledge of vocational education had Impromptu Flashdance increased post-event either by “a fair amount” (57%) or “a great deal” (14%). Marketing included radio, press, social media (eg FB reach of 78,360), schools liaison, direct mail and posters and flyers. We also had 102 tweets (using #TSSEHerts) resulting in a reach of over 4,400 (by NHC and ACER). Have a Go art Hair and Makeup Skills competition 6 Afternoon Tea/Soup Making Peterborough Regional College, 2nd May 2014 Addressing Rounders Equality and Diversity Central Bedfordshire College, 22nd May 2014 Thanks to the Skills Fund Agency’s Equality and Diversity Innovation Fund (2013/14) over 100 For information about any of these events, foundation level students from over eight colleges including competition briefs you can access the within the East of England region took part in inclusive Equalities toolkit click here skills competitions which have been designed and developed in order to equalise skills competitions. http://www.equalitiestoolkit.com/content/EDIF-ESCO- The Equalising Skills Competition is a partnership uk-skills-competitions-project project between Peterborough Regional College, Colchester Institute and ACER. Going European? The Great Essex Bake off ACER is delighted to announce that their Colchester Institute, 7th May 2014 application under the ERASMUS+ (European) Programme was successful. This will enable ACER App Design to fund and organise professional development visits for 60 ACER member college staff over the th Colchester Institute, 9 and 28th May 2014 next 2 year period to visit their counterparts in European Vocational Education Training (VET) Gift Box Design Providers. Within the VETPRO4 programme Chelmsford College, 22nd May 2014 ACER has identified skills competitions as a discrete strand. Mini Olympics If you would like the opportunity to visit (for up South Essex College, 2nd June 2014 to a week) a European VET provider to see how they approach skills competitions please contact Soup Making [email protected] Bedford College, 11th February 2014 Card Making Huntingdon Regional College, 27th March 2014 7 The New Covent Garden Soup judges evaluated how Engaging Employers in LLDD well the teams made and served the soup; followed health and safety standards and they also appraised competitions the finished soup on its appearance and taste.
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