Building on Best Practice for Public Sector Degree Apprenticeships Conference agenda and information Tuesday 11th September 2018, 10:00 - 16:30 Welcome from Conference Chair Welcome to our Building on Best Practice for Public Sector Degree Apprenticeships conference at Middlesex University, and a special thank you to our guest speakers and workshop leaders for your valuable input. Today we aim to share with you the learning and best practice around the development and delivery of public sector apprenticeships, to help you and the organisations you work for, train the qualified, skilled workers needed to deliver essential public services. We are also launching a new report, Best Practice in Work-integrated Learning for Degree Apprenticeships, detailing outcomes from Middlesex University’s national project to develop apprenticeships for police officers, nurses, teachers and social workers. The project is being delivered by Middlesex together with public sector partners. When teachers, police officers, social workers and nurses all achieve professional status through degree apprenticeships, the perception of the role and purpose of apprenticeships will be transformed in the eyes of the public and employers. Middlesex currently offers: Police Constable, Registered Nurse, Nursing Associate, Healthcare Science Practitioner, Teacher, Construction Management, Chartered Manager, Digital Technology Solutions Professional, Business to Business Sales Professional and Academic Professional degree apprenticeship programmes. Other apprenticeships including Social Worker, Senior Leader and Accountancy Professional are in development and due to be launched by January 2019. We are delighted to be working alongside all of you here today to make sure these degree apprenticeships achieve the desired impact – a qualified, professional and skilled public sector workforce that will benefit London and the country. In this brochure you will find housekeeping information, biographies for each panel member and speaker, a conference schedule and summaries for each workshop. We hope you find this conference valuable as a contribution to the ongoing discussion about what constitutes best practice for degree apprenticeships. Dr Darryll Bravenboer Director of Apprenticeships and Skills If you would like to talk to us about degree apprenticeships, please talk to me or anyone from the Middlesex team, or contact us after the event at the following: Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8411 6281 Middlesex University | 1 Housekeeping Use of Mobile Phones As a courtesy to the speakers and other delegates, please switch your mobile phone to silent while the conference is in progress. WiFi Access To log in to the Middlesex wireless network, please choose mdxuni from your list of available wifi options and type in the following User ID and Password: Help and Support If you have any queries, please go to the Registration Desk, where our events team will be happy to help you. If you require directions to rooms and facilities, please ask one of our Middlesex University Ambassadors who are wearing black Degree Apprenticeships t-shirts. Photography, Video and Audio During the conference photographers will be present. They will be taking individual and group shots to be used in future printed or digital promotions and on the University’s social media channels. Verbal consent will be sought from you for close-up pictures prior to photographs being taken. If you don’t wish for your photograph to be taken, please tell the photographer when consent is requested. Crowd shots will be taken throughout the conference. 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If you would like to comment on today’s event, please use the hashtag #MDXDegreeApprenticehsips. 2 | Middlesex University Conference Schedule 09:15 Registration and refreshments 10:00 Introduction from Conference Chair – Dr Darryll Bravenboer 10:10 – 10:30 Keynote: — Dr Finbar Lillis, Project Researcher, Middlesex University Best practice in Work-integrated Learning for Public Sector Degree Apprenticeships 10:30 – 11:50 Policy Panel session: — Nicola Turner, Head of Skills, Office for Students The value of degree apprenticeships for the public sector — Greg Wade, Policy Manager, Universities UK The strategic importance of public sector degree apprenticeships for UK Universities — Professor Tim Blackman, Vice Chancellor, Middlesex University Social mobility and degree apprenticeships — Questions: 11:30 11:50 – 12:10 Refreshments 12:10 – 13:00 Workshop Session 01 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and poster sessions 14:00 – 15:20 Practice Panel session: — Jane Hadfield, National Programme Manager – Apprenticeships, Health Education England Challenges and potential solutions for health sector apprenticeships — Susan Shoveller, Chair of Teacher Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group The opportunities for widening access to the teaching profession through apprenticeships — Jane Hanrahan, Chair of the Social Worker Degree Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group How the social worker degree apprenticeship can meet future employer needs — Kevyn Burns, Implementation Manager, College of Policing Establishing new professional standards for policing through degree apprenticeships — Questions: 15:00 15:20 – 15:40 Refreshments 15:40 – 16:20 Workshop Session 02 16:20 Closing remarks – Conference Chair 16:30 Close Middlesex University | 3 Conference Chair Dr Darryll Bravenboer Director of Centre for Apprenticeships and Skills, Middlesex University Dr Darryll Bravenboer is Director of Apprenticeships and Skills at Middlesex University. His responsibilities include driving the Middlesex ‘University for Skills’ strategy at national, regional and institutional levels. He has extensive experience of developing professional, vocational and work-based higher education in response to the needs of a wide range of employment sectors in diverse professional contexts including higher and degree apprenticeships and other areas of academic enterprise. His research interests include the philosophy and sociology of education, higher education policy, fair access, widening participation, lifelong learning and vocational, work-based and employer-responsive higher education. Darryll is Chair of Middlesex University’s Apprenticeship Steering Group, Chair of Linking London Higher and Degree Apprenticeships Group, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Trustee and Deputy Chair of the SEEC credit consortium, Board Director of University Vocational Awards Council, a member of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in Apprenticeships Advisory Group and a member of the Institute for Apprenticeships Provider Panel. 4 | Middlesex University Keynote Speaker Finbar Lillis Centre for Apprenticeships and Skills Associate, Middlesex University Finbar Lillis has worked in different strands of education for over 30 years - in the private, public and voluntary sectors - in the UK and other countries of Europe and beyond. He trained and worked as a teacher of English as an additional language, taught in the oil industry in the UK and in Qatar, developed and managed community and youth work projects in England, before working for Open College Networks regionally, and then nationally. He completed a Doctorate in Professional Studies at Middlesex University. He has co-managed a successful research consultancy for 14 years, working and publishing on adult learning reform at national and international levels. In recent years, Finbar has focused on research and practical programmes to enable progression for health and social care workers in England, from the workplace into University professional programmes. He first researched ‘modern’ apprenticeships in 2004 and is currently working with Middlesex University on ways to apply best practice in work-integrated learning in degree apprenticeships. Middlesex University | 5 Panel Members Professor Tim Blackman Vice-Chancellor, Middlesex University Tim joined Middlesex from The Open University where he was Acting Vice-Chancellor and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Scholarship and Quality. From 2004 to 2011 he was Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Durham University, where he served as Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences, Director of the Wolfson Research Institute and Dean of the University’s campus in Stockton. Born in Gravesend, he studied Geography at Durham University. After graduating, he volunteered with Voluntary Service Belfast and then returned to Durham to undertake a PhD. In 1982 he was appointed Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Ulster and then in 1990 joined Newcastle City Council as Head of Research, later returning to higher education as Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University and subsequently Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University. Tim has served on many company and charity boards, and as a UK Government advisor on neighbourhood renewal and health inequality. He was a member of the HEFCE REF 2014 Assessment Panel for Social Work and Social Policy and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Royal Society of Arts. Nicola Turner MBE Head of Skills, Office for Students National lead for skills strategy and policy in the higher education sector, current priorities include degree apprenticeships, industrial strategy and graduate outcomes. She produced two independent reviews into employability led by Sir Bill Wakeham (STEM) and Sir Nigel Shadbolt (Computer