Sector Skills Insights: Education Introduction The

Transcript:Sector Skills Insights: Education Introduction The:
Sector Skills Insights: Education Introduction The UK Commission is working to transform the UK’s approach to investing in skills to help secure jobs and growth. Key to our ambition is the need to encourage greater employer ownership of skills, working to secure long term sustainable partnerships. This slide pack and accompanying evidence report present the case for more employers in this sector to invest in the skills of their people. It does so by presenting real-life, skill-based business solutions that have been used by leading employers to tackle the performance challenges they face and by drawing on examples of the investments being made by the UK Commission through its investment funds. There are several determinants of employers’ skills needs and training behaviour including firm size, strategy and location but it is by sector which the strongest variations appear. Hence this work focuses on the Education sector. Slide packs and reports are also available for a number of other sectors from: http://www.ukces.org.uk/ourwork/sector-skills-insights . Each of the sectors are important to the economy in terms of employment, productivity or their future potential. For information about this slide pack and accompanying report please contact: Rachel Pinto (rachel.pinto@ukces.org.uk) Source information can be found in the notes section of each slide Storyboard Tackling these performance challenges: Growth through skills 3 What are key skills challenges in the Education sector? The importance of Education sector today Tackling these performance challenges: Growth through skills Performance challenge (3) DEVELOPING SUPPORT ROLES Performance challenge (2) ATTRACTING TALENT Benefits to business Performance challenge (1) MANAGEMENT SKILLS Imagine where the sector could be tomorrow What is the Education sector? Pre-primary Education includes activities designed to introduce very young children to a school-type environment. Secondary Education lays the foundation for lifelong learning and human development , and includes general, technical and vocational secondary education. Higher Education Includes post secondary education, tertiary education, first-degree level higher education and post graduate higher level education. Other Education includes sports and recreation, cultural education, driving school activities. Education Primary Education includes basic education for children in reading, writing, maths, and an elementary understanding of other subjects. Educational support Includes educational consulting, counselling and organisation activities for school programmes. What are the key skills challenges in the education sector? 5 It is not just about STEM Economies increasingly compete on their knowledge base. Policy has tended to focus on improving education in the STEM subjects (Science Technology,