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Research Seminar morning - Mon 19 May 2008
Monday, 19th May 2008
(note: Presentations from this Seminar are available to download)
Kent and Medway
Lifelong Learning Network
Employer Engagement Seminar Series
LESSONS FOR KENT AND MEDWAY
Results of LLN Research on employer
engagement and work-based learning
Monday 19 May 2008
09.30 -13.30
As a key part of its Employer Engagement Strategy the Kent and Medway LLN
has funded a research project to establish:
1. What lessons can be learned from Institutions with major work-based
learning and employer engagement links e.g. Middlesex, Derby and
Chester Universities which have well established work-based learning
provision;
2. Criteria for success in the regions, e.g., the NE and NW of England,
where employer engagement is more successful than in the SE.
3. The range of approaches adopted by HEIs which have successfully
taken up co-funded employer engagement ASNs;
4. The level of demand in Kent and Medway for higher level work-based
learning, how have employers been successfully engaged locally and
what types and modes of learning have been most in demand by
employers and employees?;
5. What infrastructure exists in Kent and Medway for employer
engagement focused on higher level skills and what opportunities there
are for developing it;
The research report will inform decisions about the engagement of network
partners with the employer engagement and work based learning agenda. In
this seminar, Dr Mike Nicholls from the University of Greenwich will present the
findings of the research and lead discussion.
