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The ULF Transformers Project: An Employer engagement project and the uses for scholarship.

Paula Jones ULF Senior Project Lead paula.jones@neu.org.uk and Norman Crowther National Official Post 16 Education norman.crowther@neu.org.uk

We are an all-embracing national partnership funded directly by Government through the Union Learning Fund and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.

To raise the profile and professionalism of the vocational educator workforce…the Transformers

• The project offers space for vital research, dialogue, peer

support and resources for important work based teaching and learning developments

• It will help shape the future of work based learning and

development by generating increased inclusion in finding sustainable solutions.

Transformers Project Purpose :

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We have developed confidential on –line surveys for employers, employees, learning providers and learners. The data from the surveys generates a free personalised workforce development and productivity report. The focus is about identifying the high level existing skills/attributes that are used in a workplace to help provoke refreshed thinking……….

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Refreshed thinking about:

• Workforce recruitment
• Workforce development
• Apprenticeships – recruitment and development
• Working with learning providers or in-house

development/training teams

• Working innovatively in collaboration across sector

networks

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Project Opportunities:

• Engagement and ‘buy in’
• Networks and ‘circles of influence’
• Learning from other employer engagement projects
• Focus on the existing positives ( what you have got)

rather than a deficit model ( what you may need)

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The Transformers Project work based success

• Report and project engagement used as PR

(news item on website)

• Report shared with BSI Quality Auditors with positive outcome
• Introduction of new appraisal system based on survey results
• Enhanced job role developed to manage new recruits

induction and training

• Wages increased throughout operational team

Transformers project E-Survey tools and how they could be applied to a Model of Scholarship (E. Boyer 1990)

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Integrative

Discovering ways that new knowledge can be used to solve real (world)

• problems. eg.

Co-design of skill needs.

Applied

Integration of knowledge from different sources.eg. developing new curricula.

Discovery

search for ‘new’ knowledge: eg. using data to answer new hypotheses.

Teaching

sharing with others: eg.pedagogies

• f the workplace.

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Contact: Paula Jones : Senior Project Leader – ATL Section paula.jones@neu.org.uk