REGIONAL OUTCOME AGREEMENT CONTENTS 01 FUNDING / PRIORITY OUTCOMES / PRIORITY OUTPUTS 02 GREAT REASONS TO STUDY AT EDINBURGH COLLEGE 04 COLLEGE CONTEXT 05 REGIONAL CONTEXT STATEMENT 06 The City Region Deal and the Regional Skills Investment Plan 09 A MORE EQUAL SOCIETY 09 Curriculum Planning 09 Gender Action Plan 11 Care Experienced Students 13 Developing the Young Workforce and Senior Phase Vocational Pathways 16 Estates Review and Travel patterns 17 Access and Inclusion Strategy 25 AN OUTSTANDING SYSTEM OF LEARNING 25 Attainment Gains 2017/18 26 Curriculum Planning Priorities 29 New Quality Arrangements 31 Articulation and SCQF 34 A MORE SUCCESSFUL ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 34 STEM Manifesto 34 STEM Pledges 36 Employer Engagement and broader stakeholder engagement 38 Work Experience 39 Apprenticeships and Foundation Apprenticeships 40 HIGH PERFORMING INSTITUTIONS 40 Regional and National Priorities 41 National Gaelic Language Plan 42 English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) 43 Student Satisfaction 45 Cyber Resilience and Business Continuity 46 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 46 Sustainability 48 GREATER INNOVATION IN THE ECONOMY 48 Innovation 49 Enterprise 50 Awards and Competitions 54 Appendix 1 - Edinburgh College Enhancement Plan 2018 - 2021 74 Appendix 2 - Evaluative Report 2017/2018 REGIONAL OUTCOME AGREEMENT Edinburgh College region FUNDING Edinburgh College region will receive £46,017,584 from the Scottish Funding Council for academic year 2019/20 to plan and deliver further and higher education in the region. PRIORITY OUTCOMES to be delivered by end of AY 2019-20 • Improve FEFT attainment to 73.2% • Increase DYW numbers by 100% from the 2016/17 baseline • Deliver the Access and Inclusion Strategy • Deliver a strategy and plan to increase innovation with industry partners PRIORITY OUTPUTS to be delivered in AY 2019-20 n 98% of full-time students achieving a positive destination n Increase the numbers of students articulating to university with advanced standing n Achieve student recruitment target in 2019/20 in line with SFC-agreed credit target n Grow the employment experience of our learners n Increase the numbers of students studying childcare Edinburgh College by 6,012 credits with HN and PDA qualifications. Signed by College Region Chair of the Board of Management June 2019 Date Principal & Chief Executive June 2019 Date Signed by the Scottish Funding Council Signature June 2019 Date Regional Outcome Agreement 1 2. GREAT REASONS TO STUDY AT EDINBURGH COLLEGE Our own record label and radio station with MacTaggart Scott Hydraulics professional sound recording studios featuring & Pneumatics PLC the latest technology Laboratory A live training laboratory for the development of engineering skills Mock airline classroom to train airport ground Drive-in photography crew for Swissport Academy. studio with infinity coving and professional dark rooms Scotland’s first solar meadow research and teaching centre with 2500 photovoltaic panels Scotland’s largest electric vehicle research project in partnership with SEStran, Edinburgh Napier University and Mitsubishi 2 Edinburgh College Two professionally run Immersive and Controlled Environment (ICE) student training Lab. Providing mixed reality and motion restaurants tracking technology for the construction industry Performing Arts Studio Scotland One of Scotland’s best One of the country’s largest and most highways, respected training centres in the civil engineering and railway track training performing arts centres Fully equipped TV studio Wella Centre of with AVID editing suites and a 96 seat Excellence auditorium One of only two approved centres in the UK Regional Outcome Agreement 3 3. COLLEGE CONTEXT Edinburgh College aims to demonstrate its A number of key objectives have already distinct contribution to the Scottish been identified which will underpin the Government’s priorities as set out in the Scottish development of an excellent curriculum Economic Strategy and its programme for going forward, these include: government for the coming year, (Delivering n Addressing skills gaps and shortage in for Today, Investing for Tomorrow: The the economy Government’s Programme for Scotland 2018-19). n Reducing regional unemployment, with a particular focus on the 16-24 age group In 2017 Edinburgh College produced a new Strategic Plan, with a reviewed set of strategic n Supporting self-employment and priorities, reflecting the changed context in which entrepreneurship the College now operates. n Improving engagement with employers in the curriculum offer These priorities are outlined below: n Widening access to learning, especially The Strategic Plan, launched in 2017, is from our wider geographic and complementary to the College Regional demographic communities with a particular Outcome Agreement, the College Evaluative emphasis on poverty Report and Enhancement Plan and Local Authority Partnership Plans across the region. In In particular, the College will work towards working towards a new Strategic Plan, an overall increase in Further Education Edinburgh College has consulted with staff, (FE) provision to support the aims of students and stakeholders. Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce and to increase cross-curricular STEM activity. TO BE VALUED IN PARTNERSHIP AND WITH COMMUNITIES IMPROVING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE 19 STRATEGIC TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE CHANGE AND EFFICIENT COLLEGE PROGRAMME PROGRAMMES DRIVING FORWARD AN TO SUPPORT AND INSPIRE EXCELLENT OUR PEOPLE CURRICULUM FOR THE FUTURE 4 Edinburgh College 4. REGIONAL CONTEXT STATEMENT Edinburgh, East are forecast in the 65+ age groups, with an Lothian and 85% increase projected for those aged 75+, a Midlothian have a projected increase of 44,000 people; and 32% One combined population among those aged 65-74, a projected increase of 708,140, with 21% of of the population 19,600 people. In contrast, the number of people 26,000 aged between 16 to aged 16-29 is expected to decrease by 3%, or STUDENTS 29 years old.1 5,100 people – the only age group forecast to 2 decline over the period. The population of the region is forecast to The College has considered a range of social, increase over the coming decades, with an economic and environmental data and increase of 122,200 people expected analysis relating to Edinburgh which can be between found in the 2016 and 2041. Equating to a 17% increase, this ‘Edinburgh by Numbers 2018 publication (link: is over three times the national projected growth edinburgh_by_numbers_2018). This publication rate of five% over the same period. As of 2016, also confirms population growth over the coming 68% of the population of Edinburgh, East years. Lothian and Midlothian, or 473,900 people, were 2 of working age (16-64). There were 365,000, Edinburgh and the Lothians residents in work in 2018, accounting By 2041, the age structure of the regional for 76% population is expected to remain largely of the working age population - 4% higher than unchanged, with those of working age the Scotland average and 2% higher than the continuing to account for the majority of the UK. In East and Midlothian, the rate is slightly population (though decreasing slightly to 64%, higher at 79% and 80%, respectively. A total of or 522,600 people). However, the highest rates 13,000 of growth Edinburgh and the Lothians residents of working age were unemployed in 2017/20185. Regional Outcome Agreement 5 NR of Scotland Mid-2017 pop. estimates. 6 SDS RSA People and Skills Supply Matrix 2018 11 SDS RSA Midlothian Infographic 6 Edinburgh College In all, 93% of school leavers within Edinburgh, The College is an active partner in the East Lothian and Midlothian entered a positive Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian destination in 2016/17, in line with the Scotland community planning partnerships, which provide level. A third entered employment, consistent valuable insight into the regional context. An with the previous year. There was an increase in increasingly prominent feature of this work is the the proportion of school leavers entering Higher planned improvements in joint approaches to Education (HE) in 2016/2017, 37% of the total, data sharing and data analytics. This work is up from 35% in 2015/2016. The proportion linked to the City Region Deal investment, and is entering FE at 21%, is in line with previous coordinated through community planning 6 years. strategic needs assessment groups. In addition, of note is the work the Edinburgh Community The region has 4% of its working age Planning Partnership (CPP) Strategic Needs population from the 10% most deprived areas Assessment Group is nationally (6% in the city of Edinburgh; 2% in doing with Edinburgh Living Lab where the use of Midlothian. East Lothian has no data zones DDI can improve local society. within the 10% most deprived nationally). Thirty-nine discrete The City Region Deal and the Regional Skills areas of Edinburgh and Midlothian are within the Investment Plan 10% most deprived in Scotland (totalling 698). At the heart of the plan are seven areas of This population was 19,979 out of a working action to be addressed over the period 2019- age population of 458, 1273 (SIMD 2016). 2022: Data is published here: n Building capacity and evidence to underpin Further analysis of the region’s most deprived a regional approach to skills investment areas highlights that, of the 39 SIMD 10 areas in the region, 20 are within the 5% most n Ensuring skills opportunities from the City Regional Deal are maximised deprived in Scotland. The most deprived data zone in Edinburgh is found in the immediate n Establishing clear pathways into key zone of Muirhouse - it has a rank of 6, meaning sectors and occupations that it is amongst the 1% most deprived areas in n Developing an employer-led programme to improve digital skills Scotland. It is also one of the most education- deprived data zones nationally, with a rank of 21; n Enhancing support for developing whilst an area of Niddrie is ranked as Scotland’s leadership, management and most deprived both in terms of income and entrepreneurial skills 3 employment.