fe and skills workforce channel lsis consultation
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Barry Kruger – Director, Knowledge and Intelligence
Bob Powell - Consultant
FE and Skills Workforce Channel: LSIS Consultation
05 March 2009
What Excellence Gateway does
Funded
programmes
VLE interoperability
Research database
Policy updates
Content repository
Collaborative workspaces
Social networking Mentor
programmes
Excellence Gateway
A workforce channel
•DIUS announced an FE and Skills Workforce Channel. (Summer 2008)
•Varney Report: rationalise web-based information and services >> easier for users to find what they want and need
• The customer in this instance is the workforce in the post-16 sector.
•The goal = improved source of online support: information, resources and professional practice for the sector
•Build upon and absorb the Excellence Gateway
A workforce channel: consultation
•Consultation with colleges and other institutions, key individuals and representative groups
•Scoping
•What constitutes the workforce
•What should the channel do
-what purposes
-what processes/ practices
•What is better done elsewhere/ by other means
A Workforce Channel: Dimensions
Leadership & ManagementOrganisational Improvement Quality Curriculum CPD
IndividualProviderAgencies, regulators etc
ContentCommunicationCollaboration
A Workforce Channel: Some questions
•What do you use the web for
•What would be good to have online at/from a single site:
-information
-response (requests for info, consultations etc)
-resources
-communications
--social networking
-shared workspace
-other
