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After three years of preparation, THE year is finally here and RELAYS (the Regional Educational Legacy for Art and Youth Sport) entering its final leg - suitable sporting analogy there.
Risk Management for developing employer-led training.
Engaging with the provision of demand led higher level skills courses is a high risk activity. Between 2006 and 2011 three regional Higher Level Skills Pathfinder Projects (HLSPP), funded by HEFCE, enabled significant employer led higher skills course development by mitigating the financial risk for HEIs through the provision of funding. This provided a test bed to trial the demand and response processes in a manner that encouraged the activity to become embedded more firmly in the region’s HEI strategies.
UUK has issued an analytical briefing providing an initial analysis of the Chancellor's 2011 Autumn Statement.
We are pleased to announce that SWMAS Ltd. is part of the national consortium winning the future MAS contract. Universities in the SW were founding members of SWMAS and have been working together for many year's - most recently on Low Carbon Higher-level Skills and through i-Nets and Business Technology Centres.
Delegates declared the Knowledge Escalator South West showcase event 'excellent' and 'stimulating'.