CHOBE/CITB/BACH: Degree Apprenticeships: what do they mean for Built Environment Departments? Policy Seminar

Wednesday February 15th 2017, 10.00 – 16.00

Chair: Prof Sarah Sayce

Room 1:69, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, Humanities Bridgeford Street, Manchester M13 9PL (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/interactive-map/)

Agenda

10.00 Arrivals, coffee

10.20 Introductions, welcome, housekeeping

10.25 The background and policy context; Laura Miller, CITB, Jane Kettle & Judy Smith, Jay Consulting

11.00 Supply and demand at a local level; Marcus Bennett and Ian Hill, CITB

11.45 Employer perspective; Kat Healey, Training and Apprenticeship Coordinator, Seddon Construction

12.10 Professional Body perspective: Barnaby Elphick, Apprenticeships Project Officer, Royal Town Planning Institute

12.15 Questions

12.30 Lunch

13.15 Degree apprenticeships: Education provider perspectives

Daniela Hawryliuk, Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University

Professor Andy Ross, Subject Head, Surveying, Liverpool John Moores University

Nick Moore Dean of Teaching and Learning, University College of Estate Management

Simon Kibble, Director of Quality and Development, Stephenson College Leicester

14.45 Q&A, discussion

15.15 Summary and close

Speaker profiles

Laura Miller

Laura is the Strategy Delivery Manager for Higher Education at CITB, as part of the Education and Training Team. Laura has been supporting the development of CITB’s Right Training Strategy, which has involved developing the Skills Supply & Demand Evidence Base to understand how training supply can be better aligned with skills demand, and to define what CITB’s role is to enable and support this direction.

Jay Consulting

Jay Consulting is Judy Smith and Jane Kettle. They work with universities, further education colleges, professional bodies, employer groups and other organisations in the lifelong learning and skills sectors. They have developed Apprenticeship Strategies for a number of organisations in the health sector, and as Associates of the HEA produced the Employer engagement and Work-Based Learning volume of the Flexible pedagogies series of publications

Kat Healey

Kat is Training and Apprentice Co-ordinator at Seddon Solutions Ltd, a £200m Construction Business delivering national outcomes through collaboration and vision. She is passionate about all genres and capability of learners, career progression, compliance and growth ensuring she always “Makes a Difference” within the industry. She is a representative of Apprenticeship Task Force, NAS, Build UK and local CITB Training Groups.

Barnaby Elphick

Barnaby has a background in learning and development and is taking up a newly-created role at the RTPI. He will be taking forward the apprenticeship programme for the professional body

Andy Ross

Andy combines research in construction project economics with involvement with economic engagement via EU and UK funded projects. He has a particular interest in effective knowledge transfer from HEI’s to industry. He is currently developing a University strategy for degree apprenticeships and is the academic lead for the HEFCE DADF project. He has been a long-standing contributor to the construction trailblazer group.

Daniela Hawryliuk

Daniela is the UK Business Development Lead and a Principal Lecturer in the Department of the Natural and Built Environment at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). She is responsible for the development of employer focused higher education courses to aid organisations in the development and engagement of their workforce. Supported through Degree Apprenticeship Development Funding, Daniela is currently project managing the design and implementation of courses to meet Degree Apprenticeship Standards in Construction and Chartered Surveying at SHU.

Nick Moore

Nick is Dean of Teaching and Learning at UCEM Nick joined UCEM September 2014 as Head of Real Estate Faculty before changing to the role of Head of Academic Operations in summer 2015. In this later role he successfully led the institution in the preparations prior and through the QAA Higher Education Review. Nick has previous experience in both HE and FE institutions. He had previously been the Subject Head for Technology at the University of West London, where he was responsible for the development of degrees in both Built Environment and Engineering and their accreditation by professional bodies. He also spent a period of time seconded to the university quality office responsible for quality at one of the university’s sites. Nick’s previous work experience was in commercial project management, general management and overseas development.

Simon Kibble

Simon has over 20 years’ experience in education, across both school and FE sectors. Starting as a qualified teacher he went on to senior management in schools, became an SSAT Lead Practitioner and managed Enterprise Education across the East and West Midlands under a DfE contract. For the last 5 years he has been Director of Quality and Development at Stephenson College in Leicestershire, which has a range of national apprenticeship programmes in addition to its Adult and Study Programme provision. Work based learning, employer engagement and enterprise education has been a consistent feature of his career.