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Cowes Enterprise Develop Cutting-Edge Curriculum to Help Pupils Win Jobs in Maritime Sector
The new curriculum will include boat-building, including specifications and designing prototypes; navigation electronics; celestial navigation; tides; admiralty chart conventions; shipping forecasts; practical boat- handling skills; and attending Cowes Regatta to celebrate the production of boats.
Ormiston Academies Trust, a leading education charity which runs 38 schools in England, has been awarded almost £97,000 by the Edge Foundation to develop and deliver a maritime economy curriculum project to help meet skills gaps in the industry, it was announced recently.
The trust was awarded the grant after submitting an application that demonstrated how the project will support the development of project-based learning and employer engagement, whilst addressing skills shortages in the UK maritime economy.
Working with Cowes Enterprise
It will work with one of its secondary schools, Cowes Enterprise College on the Isle of Wight, with sector employers and with further education providers to build a vocational curriculum for pupils.
Cowes Enterprise College, rated Good by Ofsted, is ranked by the Department for Education as the top-performing secondary school on the Isle of Wight for GCSE results in the headline Progress 8 measure.
How it will work
The curriculum will blend theory in the classroom, embedded in key curriculum subjects, with practical learning linked to the maritime industry. It will develop pupils’ practical
skills whilst enabling them to access education and employment on the Island and further afield. The curriculum will include boat- building, including design and specifications; navigation electronics; celestial navigation; tides; admiralty chart conventions; shipping forecasts; practical boat-handling skills; and attending Cowes Regatta to celebrate the production of boats. The Maritime Skills Alliance and CECAMM, part of the Isle of Wight College, are among the partners who will support on curriculum development.
Maritime Growth Study
The Maritime Growth Study (2015) estimated that 95% of UK imports/ exports are transported by sea and that seabourne trade is predicted to double by 2030. A 2018 report for Solent LEP/Maritime UK highlighted the significance of the Solent for the UK.
It said Southampton is the most important UK port for non-EU exports and the leading port for cruises. Solent LEP has also confirmed a skills shortage in the maritime sector. The Department of Transport through its Maritime 2050 strategy wants to offset the skills gap across the sector.
Key players such as IMarEST view schools and employer engagement as vital components in making maritime more appealing, citing “a strong link between the direct influence of industry and career choices made at school”.
Five funding themes
Applications to the Grant Fund had to address at least two of the following five funding themes:
• Improve the design and delivery of engaging and relevant Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance;
• Support the development of Project Based Learning (PBL) and associated profound employer engagement;
• Support the development of a 14-19 curriculum which integrates both academic and technical/professional subjects;
• Support the development of innovative approaches to higher education at levels 4, 5, and 6;
• Ways to measure the performance of technical education.
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